Beyond metric

African elephant

The one in Melbourne back in April was “more than an average petrol tanker”.

So what’s the conversion from an African elephant to average petrol tanker?
It would obviously been easier if they’d gone with Indian elephants.

Meanwhile in Georgia, a recount is already under way. Biden is ahead with the tiniest of margins – equivalent to the number of students at a high school, as one election official put it.

That high school could be any size

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Screenshot_20201113-143738 solar farm size, from the Gruen project

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Medium pizzas presumably?

But are mediums even consistent between shops?

Local place does square pizzas. I presume this farm is measured in round pizzas?

Hairdryers.

360 days a year…? seems weird, but sure.

For how many years though?

Could have said 621 billion hair dryers 24x365 anyway. Or maybe they need a rest to stop overheating?

So it’s not the fossil fuels causing global warming, it’s the bloody hairdressers.

Good ol’ Sydney Harbour:
“Alice Springs uses about nine gigalitres a year, and over about the first 12 years of the project, we’re talking an application to extract half the volume of Sydney Harbour,”
Questions raised over bid to extract 40,000 megalitres of water a year from arid Central Australia - ABC News

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I like how they need to extrapolate out to 12 years just to get to half Sydney Harbour.
Why not say a full one over 24 years?
Or go with 16 Olympic pools per year?

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New York City, or New York State? Or do they just mean Manhattan? There’s a magnitude of difference there.

No I didn’t read the article.

I always assume USA refer to the CBD when talking about a city, not the suburbs, whereas in AU we mean the whole thing because no-one actually lives in the CBD except that homeless guy

Warragambah Dam spilling Sydney Harbour’s worth of water into basin each day

Good to see we’re getting back to the classics.

Suez Canal suspends traffic as ship, almost as long as the Empire State Building, stuck like ‘beached whale’