Massimo Mazzella
Rockets are incredibly inefficient because they need huge amounts of power to get off the ground, using up most of their fuel fighting against inertia and atmospheric drag. The elevator will go up to around 12.4 miles. Even though it does not go all the way to space, the blueprints suggest it would be 20 times taller than the current highest manmade structure, the Burj Khalifa, in Dubai. It will be attached to a space station in a Lagrange Point - where the Moon and Earth's gravity cancel each other out out - so a spacecraft or station can remain stationary.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11805987/Inflatable-space-elevator-invented-by-scientists.html
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