I’ve been reading about this subject but I find it difficult to understand because of the large amount of opinions out there about how it would work and why we aren’t building it right now if our actual technology is enough to do it, also because it would be a way to get rid of greenhouse gases apart from the different applications to our plans to space exploration.
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well we can start off with “Why arent we building one?”
The technology DOES NOT EXIST to built one, and probably never will. We dont even know a material that COULD build one.
The idea is also fundamentally flawed, first, you dont save any energy using one, you just get to use electricity for it instead. You also have to invest the HUGE amount of energy required to build and maintain the structure. Every load you take up will make the structure tip slightly, if it tips enough, it will all fall to earth, and the conservative space elevator has a rope long enough to wrap half way around the earth.
Really its just pointless, and I doubt any planet will ever build one.
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