Future elevator

The future development of the elevator is not only in terms of speed or length , but also has emerged many concept elevators beyond imagination .

In 2013, a Finland elevator company developed a super lightweight carbon fiber super rope (ultrarope).Its length is far greater than the existing elevator rope, up to 1000 meters.The development of the rope spent 9 years, the finished product will be 7 times lighter than the traditional steel wire rope, less energy consumption, and the service life is two times long than the former.The emergence of super rope is another liberation of the elevator industry.It will be used in the Saudi city of Chittagong Kingdom tower, the tower is expected to be completed in 2019, about 1600 meters high.If this skyscraper was successfully completed, 2000 meters high building is no longer a fantasy.

The intention to subvert the elevator technology company is not only this one, Germany's elevator company in 2014 announced that its future of the new elevator technology MULTI has been in development phase. They use the maglev train design principle, to get rid of the traditional traction rope, lifting wells make quick lifting elevator.  The company also claimed that the magnetic levitation system will enable the elevator to achieve horizontal transport, a number of transport tanks to form a complex circuit, more suitable for use in large population density of large urban construction.

The most ideal elevator should be able to move both horizontal and vertical direction.In this way, the form of the building will no longer be limited.What about beyond the earth?By the United States Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) former engineer Michael Ryan founded the elevator group company announced,it is easier to build a space elevator on the moon than on the earth, the company can build a space elevator on the moon by the available technology, and that this idea can become a reality in 2020.

In March 23, 2005, NASA announced the space elevator project has become the preferred century challenge.Russia and Japan are also not resigned to playing second fiddle.Japanese construction company Dalin group, the initial program of its space elevator, installed on the orbital station of the solar panel is responsible for providing energy for the space elevator.elevator cabin can accommodate 30 tourists, the speed of about 201 km / h, only a week or so can enter the distance of about 36 thousand kilometers of space on the ground.

If there is no elevator on the earth,human beings will be limited to on the ground.Without an elevator, the city would have no vertical space, no dense population, no more efficient resource utilization;Without elevator, there is no rising high-rise buildings, so that humans can not create a modern sense of the city and civilization.