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Re:3D printing with cellulose by wolfram74 on Monday March 20, 2017 @09:30AM (#13914001)
Not with cellulose, and likely not from the ground up. Space elevators are typically imagined as being bootstrapped from a starter cable lowered from orbit. And the tensile strength for a safe one is an order of magnitude or two higher than good steel, to say nothing of plant fibers.
Re:3D printing with cellulose by acd on Monday March 20, 2017 @01:16PM (#13915881)
Could we build a space elevator with artificial silk?

https://www.slu.se/en/ew-news/2017/1/spinning-spider-silk-is...