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How Much Power Is 1.21 Gigawatts, Anyway? The Science Behind Back to the Future (www.syfy.com)
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Back to the Future's 1.21 gigawatts sounds huge, but is it? We compare different power levels of common objects to see how much energy a gigawatt really is.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (5 children)

How many gigawatts in a jiggawatt?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (4 children)

@DarkGamer @inkican

Actually, Jiggawatt is gigawatt mispronounced. So they are the same thing. :) There is an article in the NY Times regarding this that when they were doing research, someone mispronounced it to them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Who am I going to trust? You, or a man who literally invented a time machine?

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