TORONTO (Web Desk) – A Canadian company has designed a 20km-high tower that would carry astronauts up into space in a giant lift.
The plans for a “space elevator” have been approved by the US patent office, which granted Ontario-based Thoth Technology the rights to a “pneumatically pressurised structure for location on a planetary surface”.
The tower will be more than 20 times the height of the 830m-tall Burj Khalifa, current tallest building in the world located in Dubai.
Thoth Technology said the freestanding structure would provide a new way to access space that required 30 per cent less fuel than a ground-launched conventional rocket. It said the tower would provide secondary functions including wind-energy generation, communications and tourism.
Canadian space company Thoth Technology said the 20km tower would make flying to outer space like ‘taking a passenger jet’ (Thoth) Canadian space company Thoth Technology said the 20km tower would make flying to outer space like ‘taking a passenger jet’ (Thoth) “Astronauts would ascend to 20 km by electrical elevator,” said Dr Brendan Quine, its inventor.
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