do you think it will be expensive to use the elvator to space?

Question: do you think it will be expensive to use the elvator to space?
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  space,
  space elevator
Asked by theo to Chris, Sinead, Jessamyn, Eleanor, Adam on 11 Nov 2013.
- Christian Wirtz answered on 11 Nov 2013:
  
  Hi Theo,
  
  that depends on your definition of “expensive”. We still haven’t built it (and it may be a long time until that happens) but some people have calculated that it may cost about $200 per kg cargo to get up there. That means it would cost me about $15,000 to use it once which may sound expensive, but is a lot cheaper than any other method we have right now.

Question: do you think it will be expensive to use the elvator to space?