Never before have a I hoped that a Wikipedia article is part of an elaborate joke.

What do you delete yourself with in the desert? A water bottle?

Tbf that would be two dams and they did use the plural of dams, technically ‘dams’ could be a pumped storage facility.

By my very very very rough calculations, you could build a large scale solar farm with 3x power output and have enough money left over to build a 33GWh battery. That would more than cover a continuous supply of 1GW.

The consumer hardware store in Australia sells a full range of both. Takes up a lot of space. The metric nuts & bolts are definitely cheaper than the imperial ones though.

It’s interesting to see that Australia and New Zealand did just fine with metrification around the same time. Yet somehow, the UK and US absolutely bungled it and Canada has had to wait for generational change.

I think you mean that all of your roads are laid out in a 1.609km grid.

The article says they’re going to build 30,000 new chargers with two different charging standards. That’s not settling, that’s hedging.