Chapter 11: Building Up

By 2000, the space access structure had been expanded until it had been able to lift construction materials so that Satellite Solar Power Plants had replaced half of the previously fossil fueled electrical sources.

The structure, now called a Kinetic Energy Supported Transportation Structure, began to lift materials for test systems for a new kind of use of space in GEO: taking analogy to early types of Mass Spectrometers that sorted out plasma components according to their mass-charge ratio as they bent around a magnetic pole at constant velocity, large scale versions were built in GEO. Materials toxic to the Earth environment were brought up there along the KESTS to the Total Recycling Plants, where focused solar energy turned the material into a plasma, then set to constant velocity, arched past a magnet and was collected in buckets place where mass-charge ratio tossed the elemental particles thusly purified, to be used again in manufacturing. Whole computers were recyclable by this technique, otherwise their materials entropy was too great to recycle on the ground.