cardboard models

Our scale small stacked structure are just uneven and asymetrical.







So instead of stacked structure, we are going to side-by-side attached structures...

Next we tried to simulate the structure :
http://sodaplay.com/creators/cesarharada/items/hexagonal_2triangles

And now, the same structure but as a pattern

6 sides, 12 pieces, 5 levels

- 6 sides
- 12 parts
- 5 levels thick

Unstable, fragile, uneven...

Download the 3d sketchup file (220kb)


http://sites.google.com/a/opensailing.net/www/labs/nomadic_ecosystem/drafts-ideas

Space elevator

I know it can sound a bit far off and out of reach (at least for our budget), but the space elevator project is an amazingly interesting idea :



AND HAVE YOU NOTICED !!!!??? : the space elevator is anchored on earth in a offshore petrol platform looking thing!



It is actually is a simple solar powered elevator on a tense cable, attached in space to a "satellite" in synchronous orbit, EXCITING! Maybe open sailing can be a very interesting laboratory for testing many of these ideas, also before a cable in space we can think of a cable in the depth of the ocean. And by the way, what if we concentrate huge beam of solar power in the direction of the ocean? What would we see? ... To be continued!