Scientists Working on a Space Elevator?

[Random Person B]

Heres a couple reasons for why this could be awesome just off the top of my head:

The 2 most efficient energy creators we have are hydroelectric and nuclear. Hydro electric is constrained by water, and massively disrupts the environment because of how much land it requires to put a dam in place. Nuclear plants are relatively small, but the nuclear waste and pollution it creates are extremely hard to get rid of and puts out dangerous radiation. at least Co2 from oil and coal factories can be absorbed by the ocean/plants, there is no way for nuclear waste to degrade safely except wait for thousands of years. Have a space elevator, now you can just eject it out into space. Only problem would be how confident do you feel having material that could potentially give everyone on earth cancer transported safely up there.

If its high enough, you could make short quick trips to the moon and back. Develop a moon base. It would be a lot easier with an elevator. You could launch spaceships from the top of the elevator instead of on the ground. You would not have this pesky thing to deal with called gravity. It takes a lot of energy to reach escape velocity and even with all our advances rocketry is still not very safe. See columbia/challenger.