How to Build a Tethered Ring

A first-scale tethered ring can be built and tested many meters below the surface in the ocean, in international waters. One possible location discussed in the patent is around the Antarctic continent,. Another discussed in the white paper is around the Pacific Rim. The tethers attach to it and the ground not space, so it's hard to picture how this is actually hanging in the sky from those tethers. We have some visuals to explain this where we'll be putting up on the screen, but for our audio-only listeners over on SoundCloud, Spotify, iTunes, Audible, Amazon Music, and others, this might be a bit tricky to visualize.

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