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New Japanese Mega-Elevator Can Carry 80 Passengers at Once (Or: Just 65 Americans)

by Robert Quigley | 1:59 pm, May 20th, 2010

Mitsubishi has just finished installing five monster-sized elevators in a building in Osaka, Japan, each capable of carrying 80 people apiece, by Mitsubishi’s measurements, for a total of 11,574 pounds of capacity versus the 1,000 to 6,000 pounds normal elevators carry. According to CBS, these are the largest elevators ever constructed, measuring at 11.15 ft. wide, 9.2 ft. long and 8.5 ft. tall.

It’s worth pointing out that these elevators wouldn’t get as much bang for their buck if they were dealing with American passengers:

According to the CDC’s most recent survey, the average American male weighs 191 pounds, and the average American female weighs 164 pounds. The 2000 Census pegs the male-female ratio at 49-51: [(49 x 191)+(164 x 51)]/100 gives us an average American weight of 177.23 pounds. Divide the elevator capacity of 11,574 pounds by that, and you get just 65 American passengers.

That’s still a lot, but it goes to show a mega-elevator just doesn’t get you as far in some places.

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    191 pounds is the average now? omg..

  • kylemac

    “a mega-elevator just doesn’t get you as far in some places”

    Wow – are you really that stupid? Could you take your maths just one itty bitty step further? Okay, so Americans are, on the whole, heavier than the Japanese. The mega-elevator may not be able to carry as many Americans as Japanese but if we got a mega elevator over here it would still result in a proportional increase in carrying capacity.

    To simplify the numbers, if an average Jap. is 100lbs, the change in carrying capacity from a normal (let’s go with 1,000lbs) elevator to mega (let’s go with 10,000lbs) elevator is 10 –> 100 people. You can carry 10x more.

    Now let’s look at Am. using 200lbs average weight (for simplicity) and the elevator carrying capacity from above we go from 5 –> 50 people. Still 10x more people.

    The elevator is still going as far. I get your point, but inaccurate journalism (implying through banter that the technology will somehow be less useful in America) is really not needed.


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