Sky Hooks are awesome - but not as good as Space Elevators!
NASA is funding research into variety of proto-Sky Hook called a tether: <http://www.nature.com/nsu/030527/030527-3.html>.
More here <http://slashdot.org/articles/03/06/19/1917241.shtml?tid=134>
Not quite the same as a Lofstrom Loop - <http://www.homoexcelsior.com/omega.db/datum/megascale_engineering/lofstrom_loop/164>
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