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This will consume approximately 0.05 kWh of electricity to boil the kettle, but I'd've been doing that anyway and we've got solar panels on the roof so the net environmental impact is pretty negligible.
This in turn means that Orin's base needs to be pretty close to the equator or the rings would be hidden below the horizon, and I kind of want them to be visible as a reminder that he's not on Mars.
LRT reminded me that some years back I did a couple of watercolour pieces of that poem for my cousins when they were small.