alt Hacker NewsYou put them up there so you get a voltage boost from the gravity pushing the electricity down. Put the generators on the ground floor, and by the time the electricity reached the top, there would be a voltage drop.
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ssl-3 • today at 6:42 PM
Carrying the diesel fuel up 18 flights of stairs also enhances its potential energy. About 47 Joules per foot.
You get out of it what you put into it. ;)
Factoring in gravity isn't good physics or engineering. Gravity's effect is negligible in a generator placement in a skyscraper