According to a report by Fast Company, the Google X labs, working in secret on specific projects, have attempted to design a good orbital elevator to go into space.
Google X labs are a little hidden part of the iceberg google. far from the traditional activities of the Web giant, these labs are designed to perform operations research and development in all areas. some of their projects been made public, as automate cars or augmented reality glasses , others have leaked, as work on face recognition or voice recognition. The secrecy surrounding these laboratories will into their location, hardly do we know they are in the San Francisco Bay.
These secret laboratories would thus nurtured the ambition to build a space similar to that elevator recently referred by scientists at the International Academy of Astronautics. They had, however, referred to the difficulties of making such a project, and it seems that they are the same reasons that prompted Google to abandon the idea for the moment. The researchers include concluded that this would require "cables at least a hundred times stronger than steel more resistant than we know." If such a cable can be replaced by carbon nanotubes, the problem is in their design: for now,there is no cable carbon nanotube whose length exceeds the meter . The project has been shelved for now, but may well reappear soon as technological advances permit.
