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Energy is Force times Distance. You're not moving (even though you're accelerating) so there's no energy expended.

See Veritasium's video at 10m17s:

https://youtu.be/XRr1kaXKBsU?t=617

He addresses that basic science makes this confusing because there's a curvature term that is usually left out of acceleration equations which balances out when you're accelerating along your curvature (e.g. against gravity), instead of along your spatial coordinates.



Nice, that's it, thank you




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