DynamicSpirit
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On a related note, I wonder how power consumption compares between a conventional life and a paternoster? On the one hand, a paternoster runs all the time - all compartments moving even if hardly anyone or noone at all is actually using it. On the other hand it doesn't have the starting/stopping of a conventional lift, and presumably a paternoster can take advantage of one side going down as the other side goes up, so only needs enough power to overcome friction - whereas a single lift going up needs a huge amount of energy to overcome gravity (Is it technologically feasible to feed that back into the grid when the lift goes down?).