:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:I imagine that it would take a humungous footing and capacitive bank to make contact, hold, and maintain such a Space Elevator Tether. Perhaps millions and millions of receptor cells. Probably a place big enough to hold a Giga or so of battery cells should do the trick.
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I am sorry, but this is way off topic as it belongs in the Barstow thread. Besides, neither the Mayans nor Nikola had nanotech's then. Well, maybe the Mayans did. We'll never know...