Ride the elevator out to geosync, and you'd be in orbit for free. Ride it past there and let go, and you'd end up flying away from the earth. Time it right an

Ride the elevator out to geosync, and you'd be in orbit for free. Ride it past there and let go, and you'd end up flying away from the earth. Time it right and you could end up traveling to the moon or to mars for little to no fuel costs, and just have to brake at your destination. Edit: My mistake, I didn't realize that this wasn't the normal concept of tether out past geosync.