The battery is shown installed hanging on a wall. Its dimensions are H: 1300mm W: 860mm D:180mm, so it's too wide to fit in a closet. You also can't fit it under e.g. a workbench (in any orientation), so your only installation option is a blank expanse of wall. It also looks like the front panel is curved, so you can't install it lying on its back and then put anything on top of it.

So once again marketing (hey, let's make a glossy design that stands out and is impossible to hide) wins over practicality (let's make a rectangular box that can be installed somewhere unobtrusive).

Hawaii would be a good fit for the system outlined in this recent story.

Install enough renewables to have a large excess of power, and use the excess to generate diesel fuel and alleviate Hawaii's high fuel prices.

Traffic accidents are almost always caused by driver error. Mechanical failure is lost in the noise at less than 5% of all crashes.

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Now that would be cool; standing at a point where the ecliptic plane is right overhead, and seeing a bright red ribbon erupting from the ground, extending straight up as far as the eye can see. The eruption point would move at 1600 km/h and the ribbon itself would move up at 29 km/s. I'm so disappointed this doesn't happen :-)

The numbers gathered by the Nazis in WW2 agree with the numbers gathered after the war by people unsympathetic to the Nazis. How much more confirmation do you need before you cross the line from sceptic to denialist?

In the Western world, maybe. Denying the Holocaust is still a popular pastime in e.g. the Arabic world.

London Pneumatic Dispatch Company or London Post Office Railway

There's still an option to allow exact searches: Search tools->all results->Verbatim.

Drives me nuts too, I'll have to figure out how to specify that in the URL so I can at least call the page with that option already switched on.

You can see the RCS in action in this video

At first glance, it would seem that a circular orbit can still lead to varying tidal forces. The only requirement is that the planet is not tidally locked to the moon (i.e. the planet's rotation is not in sync with the moon's orbit). Or am I overlooking something?

The recoverable version (F9R) has a set of cold gas thrusters. Other than that, not much is known. See this page

In its current configuration, the stage can't hover: on its lowest thrust setting, the engine still provides too much thrust. So they land using a "hoverslam" maneuver where they try to decelerate to a vertical speed of 0 just as the stage intersects the barge.

There is an RCS at the top of the stage to keep the stage upright, but any lateral thrust at the bottom has to be done by gimbaling the main engine. The gimbaling angle is limited so they may have run out of control authority on this landing.