Scientists Working on a Space Elevator?

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I believe it's closer to a decade when i first heard about this. Too bad the carbon nanotube isn't yet strong enough to deal with the elevator yet.

In the first stage it's supposed to go up to 30 000 km and in the second stage to 100 000 km.

I see two things being biggest with the elevator; energy production, which would lead to whole different level with solar energy and a shipbuilding dock in stationary orbit for spacecrafts and satellites.