Is this for real?

Probably by the time we have the technology and money to build one, we won't need it anymore.

Not to mention the risk of terrorist attacks, although if quantum computing is possible and doable, the risks of hijacking a satellite into a space shuttle are far smaller.

How is such a thing even possible within 38 years?

from what I read the structure itself is planned to be even higher (~60k miles), just the main station has to be at ~20k miles as that's the geosynchronos orbit ,meaning it would be positioned above the same spot on the earth at all times there

WHAT.

COME ON PEOPLE.

That's much higher than low earth orbit. Satalites!? Meteorites!? F*CK SAKES.

and it has to be if you want to make an elevator as in low orbit it would rotate faster around the earth than the earth rotates itself, meaning you can't possible build an elevator to a station there

This has to be early april fools, surely? That is impossible

Whether it will be managed in 38 years or not I don't know (doubtfull IMO) but as a concept it is feasable... Satellites in geostationary orbit remain above the same point in the Earth, in basic terms this is just attaching a cable between the two.

God knows what they will do about all the shit that's up there already though, all the satellites in geosynchronous polar orbit will be passing by the "cable"... I guess the active satellites can be programmed to boost around it, but there will surely be a bunch of dead satellites, maybe some that don't have propulsion, and still other junk from various space missions or even small bits of rock or from near miss asteroids.

EDIT: Got my terms wrong... however i'm not certain now that it's possible to have a geostationary orbit above Japan (it is possible to have a geosynchronous orbit that can keep Japan in sight, but this means the satellite's ground position would move about in an analemma, so wouldn't be useful for a lift). As such this lift would have to be made at the equator (at least from what I understand).

The tower is a rigid system. I.e the underlined isn't true.

nah, i would give that to the first fusion reactor.
unlimmited clean energy? yes please, a space elevator is nothing unless there is commerce in space, which there isn't much of if any atm.


anyways
2050 seems like a pretty long ways away at the rate technology increases i would expect it sooner.