Thanks to Daniel Suchet for spotting an error in an earlier iteration of this.

… 360 days working per year, one cycle per day, and 35–40 years of work, that would be 14,400 lifts. That brings the carbon debt delivered down to only 1.9 kg per lift or about 0.4 kg per kWh, which is to say as bad as natural gas and about 40 times worse than wind energy.
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Climate futurist and advisor. Founder TFIE. Advisor FLIMAX. Podcast Redefining Energy - Tech.
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