perilunar

Yes, but 'use' rather than 'get'. If you tax land or other natural resources, people use less so there is more for everyone else. It doesn't pay to hoard or speculate.

> Reservoir volume in the US is measured in acre-inches.

Never heard of an acre-inch before, and I'd have to get out a calculator to work out how much water that actually is in pints or gallons, or how much it weighs.

The metric equivalent would be a hectare-meter or a hectare-mm. I know a hectare is 100 m x 100 m, so 10,000 m². So I instantly know that a hectare-meter is 10,000 m³ (10 ML, or 10,000 tonnes of fresh water). A hectare-mm is 10 m³ (10 kL). If my 1 ha block gets 1 mm of rain, then that's 10 kL or 10 tonnes of water. So easy i can do it in my head.

> And of course an inch is 2.4cm

2.54 cm.

Depends on what you mean by 'tech'.

Whereas IPv6 is effectively unlimited, so by Georgist principles should be free. I wonder if charging 'rent' on IPv4 addresses would be enough to get people to switch over?

We shouldn't. We should tax land and resource use.

> Strictly speaking - a battery is stored potential energy

That's its function, but that does not make any device that stores energy a 'battery'. An electric battery is specifically a battery of electrochemical cells — Franklin invented the term as analogous to an artillery battery (a collection of guns).

Calling every form of stored energy a 'battery' is just dumbing things down for the masses.

"now operational and supplying inertia to the national grid."

I wish someone would pay me to supply inertia. I'm quite good at it too.

I wish Australia had term limits for all politicians, and not just for the PM. Term limits prevents people becoming career politicians, which i think would be a good thing.

Indeed. It tends to reinforce a two-party system. Anyone who votes third-party gets accused of 'wasting' their vote.

Preferential/ranked choice voting allows people to vote third-party while still expressing a preference for one of the majors.

> sudo desire of freedom

i think there's a chron job that runs that when you hit puberty.

Honestly, they seem kind of lame. A chair with legs. A chair with 2 wheels. A rugged wheelchair. Great. Most people would just want their legs to work, or failing that, to be able to walk with assistance, not sit in a chair. Give them a powered exoskeleton, not a fancier wheelchair.

Cute, but the car pitches too much. It should stay relatively level.