Hardly. The field strength between thunder clouds and the earth alone is not enough for lightning.
Yes there are a million volts present. No that is not enough to arc over 1,5 km (1 mile) (distance bottom of an average thunder cloud to the ground). It is approximately enough for 100 meters (1/15th of the required distance) according to the 1 kV/cm rule of thumb.
Current theory states that high speed cosmic particles ionize the air so the lightning can arc.

Apparently play games and download porn on the PoS.
In theory an american PoS has access to credit card numbers. Since the PoS apparently is a fully fledged Windows machine with internet access these cc numbers could be stolen.

A leech pierces the skin. This is further from a leech than a needle is.
Also, most leeches lead with a painkiller to mask their work.

The mail back to the lab version doesn't need to be the only version. Once this is approved there will probably be one with a built in glucose sensor.

Luckily I live on the other side of the planet so I can die slowly from starvation.

Growing cattle is hardly required for survival. Veganists have been surviving without it for years.
Now I am not saying the first self sustaining Martian colonists should be veganists, but all meat and animal products should come from small livestock. Chickens for example, require only little space (even free range ones. The ones that have so much space that they don't even use half of it.).

Hardly. What you wanted may have been there, but add revenue has allowed the internet to expand to many times that size. It now includes more stuff most people want to see.
The sites that don't have ads are running at a loss (sometimes that's worth it), have other means of revenue and/or have low traffic.

Most of the stuff that would be there without ad revenue doesn't have ad revenue now either. For example Open Source stuff, info sites by manufacturers and programmers and webshops.
However if you want a reliable review site then that site needs to pay for their datacenter space & electricity & food for the reviewers. That costs money. No ads, no paywall? How are they going to raise that money? Bribes from companies for good reviews? Do you really want to go there?
No real reviewers but user generated reviews? Easy to get fake reviews.

Sorry, that should have been "GW scale powerconversion". TW scale in a single location is technically possible but not done as of yet.
For scale: the average power consumption over 2010 was approximately 17 TW.

There is such a thing as TW scale powerconversion. You just need to order it.
Most long distance runs are HVDV because that has lower losses. The same equipment can be used to convert from 50 Hz to DC to 60 Hz and back.
The reason this was a problem during the Fukishima disaster is that there was no time to make it. Not that it was not possible to make it.

5 GB? Please tell me that that is a mobile account!

It's either paywall, adds or a mostly empty internet.

Having said that: I block adds to block malware, because add networks seem to be too stupid to check what they serve for malware.

Now split that 1Gbps over 100 devices in an office building. Not so fast anymore, is it?
Not that I think this light based stuff is the answer. I think the answer was tested with the spatial streams in wireless AC. We just need more than 8 streams and higher carrier frequency so we can tune those streams better.
We may end up with technology close to phased array radar.

I currently have some problems with wifi through thick concrete walls (bottom of a 15 story building). Your gamma wifi would probably solve that quite nicely.

Lawnmowers are hardly as nice as genocide. They are tools of mass torture that leave the victim alive for as long as possible, drawing out the torture for as long as possible.

First: Iceland uses "only" 4 times as much per capita as the US.
Second: It does not filter out industrial use of electricity. Iceland has a couple of huge aluminium factories, using 1/4th of the nation's electricity.
Third: I have no clue for the rest. Probably a lot of electrical heating because it gets cold in the winter.