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I'm going to have to agree witht the sceptics on this one. Building a space elevator of any kind seems both unrealistic and inefficient. Many people have mentioned the inherant instability of stretching such a long and thin elevator (either a flexible cable or a rigid tower) so far into space. It would be like trying to keep a piece of spaghetti a mile long straight up in the air (think cooked for cable, uncooked for tower). At any rate, beside nature's tendency to wreck the whole thing, there would be the effects of its use. Newtons's third law states, "To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." If we do succeed in getting a cable strung from earth to a satalite in a stable geostationary orbit then it would not be long before the counter-force of moving people and cargo up the elevator would have the effect of pulling it down - or "reeling it in" to use a fishing analogy. It would not take much perturbation to cause the entire thing to shift out of equilibrium and then gravity would finish the job. If mankind has the resources necessary to attempt such a project, I think it would be better invested in developing more fuel efficient and safer rocket-type space launches.

from what i read i dont think it would work