acres

"My friends and I bought 5 acres and dug a moat around it."Yup, that's a +1 there.

The finite numbers I have are thus:Land:I purchased 5 acres for $2,000 of Craigslist.

Dams and power plants are usually in the GW range, so it would take 33x33 acres to capture 1 GW of heat.

The invasive vine now spreads at a rate of 150,000 acres a year, so it certainly accomplished goal A.

Bubba has a large house, two trucks, a few acres of land, ATVs, a hunting cabin, and hunting licenses.

Or, you can live elsewhere, own a few acres, have a big garage, a rec room, work normal hours, have half the commute, and still save plenty of money.

Or all of the goddamn fixed-width "experiences" that were either too wide for what users wanted their window to be or so narrow that acres of space were wasted.

My CO house is comparable to a $4-5M Tahoe mountain home - a few acres, awesome views, wooden beam interior, huge open space interior plan, full basement, multiple decks, and so on.

You actually start wondering if the valuations are justified after all, whether it be a house, stock certificate of a tech company, the mineral rights to some acres in the Haynesville shale, or some land on the Vegas Strip.

It's the same in any arena: if I try to think of a "bad" novel, my mind won't even go to the acres of paperback romances or teen vampire stories: I'll think of books published in hard cover and mentioned as being in the running for the Booker prize, that happen to be trite, inept, and derivative.