Aeronaut wrote: I was wondering if I’d missed a jargon term. Been a while since I’d actually looked into how an elevator might be built, deployed, and operated, and I never did see anything reasonably current.
If aerogel’s a good electrical conductor, a mag field effect might keep it up.
The solids used in aerogels vary widely. They range from silicon with or w/o fibreglass, etc., to carbon. No metals, AFAIK.
