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Switzerland dug a hole the size of two soccer fields to install the world’s most powerful underground battery, able to output 1.2 GW within milliseconds. (www.ecoticias.com)
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[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Calling it two football field would still work. Americans would think brown oblong ball field, everyone else would think black and white orb game. In in all cases they'd be thinking of essentially the same measurement.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 6 points 2 months ago

Right?! It’s just so puzzling a choice.

[–] banause@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's exactly what the original comment said?

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

I think it was alluding to it, but stopped short of explicitly saying it. I felt it was worth explicitly saying.