A Plan to Orbit an Asteroid Around the Moon Used as An Electric Motor to Achieve a Simple, Clean, Safe, Cheap Future Source of Vast Energy..

..Also about Mining the Mineral Wealth of the Asteroid Phobos (or other asteroids)  for The Treasure of its 4000 Quadrillion Dollars Worth of Precious Metals, Plus a Scientific Treasure of Finding More About the Asteroids and the Solar System by bringing the asteroid nearer to us.

 Goddard and Tsilokovski were two rocket pioneers of the early 20th century who built the first rockets. Goddard built his rocket at his aunt Effie's house in Auburn, MA. It was a contraption with pipes and a rocket motor and it ushered in the age of rocket propulsion.

 Although the Chinese had used  fireworks, they tried to build the first airplane with kites powered by fireworks and it caught fire. Even so they had such as water pumps for mills, and they had 30 major industrial inventions 1000 years before they found them in the W by way of travel by the ocean around the world, and the trickle up method!

  So Europe was catching up, with the Chinese Ka Ching and their industry doing business, from which rockets, clocks, silk and ocean going navies were devised.   

 Tsilokovsky and Goddard wrote detailed descriptions about how they believed we could build the elevatorto orbit.  Basically the centrifugal force holds the elevator up while even so a super strong material is needed.

  Recently materials strong and light enough to build the elevator have been found by engineers like graphene solids that are carbon. Space junk would be no problem because they just move to one side, and the tower is intact. Meteorologists can predict from weather space junk reports if space junk "or a meteor" is coming to move the elevator to the side. With the light weight, if the elevator fell simulations show would be no more impact than if newspapers fell on the reader!

  It's believed the first nation to build the elevator will be getting a lot of wealth and power because they'll be able to earn by launching payloads cheaply and safely to orbit and also charging other nations for their payloads if used. So any nation that builds an elevator will have major power and economic advantages. 

 

  The asteroid Phobos has 4000 quadrillion dollars worth of precious minerals on it and around it, it's enough to pay the US debt 100,000 times.

Engineers have found ways to move asteroids by taking a small mothership and then small bots ..these go out with lasers to zap the asteroid.

  One asteroid often has 1/5 of the water of the entire oceans of the Earth. Blasting with the ablation of the steam and dust outward with just four small lasers has as much propulsion as the space shuttle to power the asteroid where they want to move it. So I thought we might move  into the orbit around the moon and we're harvesting all those minerals while we're doing science.

  In my belief we could use the magnetic properties or attach magnets to Phobos and send them into the moon either landing or spearing large electromagnets into the moon like the Japanese moon program where they're using this method to put the sensor inside of the crust instead of a lander..they won't have to worry about crash landing!

  With this type of engineering we spear or land the cheap electromagnets into or on the moon and into the asteroid with the asteroid in orbit around the Moon. As it goes around, it generates a lot of power, huge amounts of energy. It's like a motor as it orbits around. 

 While fusion may seem to hold promise this might help whoever reaches Phobos first to earn enormous wealth in addition to the great science value.

 Current nuclear fusion generators will cost a lot to build, and a moon motor would be certainly hugely less to achieve the same amount of energy than solar power arrays. Solar power to be viable enough would take much of the area of the world other than perhaps the new transparent solar panels..Even so the payoff for investors or pay per dollar spent would be hugely more than other ways to find energy.

 Other methods like putting heat collectors out in the desert might take a lot of infrastructure and other woes to build and maintain and studies have shown solar in the desert also permanently damages the ecology. Using the asteroid motor would be a much faster way to achieve a lot of energy and money.         

     

   How to Move the Energy from the Asteroid Motor to Us Here.. 

For the near future I think we could send packages of either molecular gyroscopes or perhaps ultra capacitors to safely bring the energy to us without harming the atmosphere. 

 I originally thought we could send microwaves to the Earth from the moon. Then I realized this might harm the ecology and the electrical layers of the ionosphere or the ozone layer..

  That's why I'm not in favor of sending microwaves from stellar collectors, which are like solar collectors in orbit. And engineers can always catch up on enough shade at night, and sunshine for astronomers, no sunshine in the shade!

Often in the history of technology and science a lot of inventions that are thought to be the best are improved and bypassed by better machines.

  If ever built, the elevator will be by far the largest machine people have ever built and would be expensive. Other technology has been developed that may be a cheaper safe way to go to orbit...

  For example lightcraft are machines like a saucer with the payload above that has a reflecting base and from the ground a laser lifts it up. For a usual launch with current methods it takes the fuel to pay for the fuel so otherwise the first three seconds of a rocket launch are 97% of the cost of the mission.

 If it's ever built, this is my favorite way we might bypass the elevator, if it's never built! As in the history of science and engineering there is a vast graveyard of interesting but incorrect ideas, or perhaps here "not so much wrong" as "not yet the best".

    Because of this recent Improvement by way of the light craft I think the tower may never be built. Even so I still think it's a possibility.   

 The asteroid motor would generate huge amounts of energy. Consider the jet stream..it's been proven to have 600 times as much power perhaps by using kites (an airship kite might be best) as we'll need for the United States. And that's just like with lightweight air moving only a few 100 mph.

 Orbital velocity around the Earth is around 67,000 mph and the orbital velocity of the Moon is 2,286 mph so the asteroid would be moving at high speed. 

 It's got hugely more mass than the air of the jet stream since the momentum is the motion multiplied by the mass. It's got 10 to the 16th power kilograms of mass or about 10 trillion tons. So we're talking about all the energy we might need at least for any time in the near future.  

  It would seem to be safe from terrorists because asteroids are difficult to move in general and it would take a long time for anyone to change it and we would have advanced notice.

 It may be easy and cheap to extract the energy from the asteroid, attaching motors to them and then collecting the power other than about beaming the energy back to the tower.

 Packages on the lightcraft could be used containing molecular gyroscopes or perhaps ultra capacitors set down gently and easily using the light craft. And so the laser from the ground reflects it up and eases it downward gradually and gently, and as is known about light craft if it runs out of power, it just glides down to the earth. 

One advantage of the Light craft is that it's safer from explosion because there is no fuel on board and it can also move slower.

Another way to make a reentry safer would be to boost the packages ahead of the motion of the Earth so they land with a relative velocity that's really low. This is a method that's been proposed to land large payloads on Mars.

  It costs not much or nothing extra to send it ahead of the motion of a body like a planet to move with it when it reaches the surface of the planet.

     A cheaper method of building an elevator might be to first use a rocket to send up the line and hold it there and then small bots each with a payload on it to pay its way by the economic value with a thin coat of line making it stronger with each travel of the bot and each day it gets more more built up.

    So as you see, it may be quite easy to extract large amounts of energy from the asteroid using simple electromagnets and one trip to Phobos to move it into orbit around the Moon. 

If this is built in the future it would be a safe simple cheap way to achieve lots of power.