That something takes a lot of man-hours to be done is not a good thing really.

All else being equal, yeah (i.e. if everyone already has a job...)

Or if employment is approaching the NAIRU-limit where the central bank will kill off a job for each created.

But when you are comparing local man-hours with imported gas (for a given number of mWH), then it's a no-brainer.

I am all for as local production as possible.  And fossile fuels are horrible. So it is a no-brainer, just not for the arguments stated in the study.

I think that with the set-up provided in the study low-payed (or not payed as appears to be the custom nowadays) people pedling locally produced bikes to generate energy would make sense. After all you get to deduct the local costs as GDP benefit, plus the multiplier effect. So the "net cost" would be really low. And lots of local man-hours. But it still does not make sense to produce energy that way.

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