Whatever.. gig- (as in gigabyte, gigawatt, etc..) are also supposed to be pronounced with a "soft g" - but the only person I've *ever* heard pronounce it that way was Doc Brown.

This song to me sounds almost like that "yeah those were the best days of my life" one, except for a few chord changes.

Also, how long have you been playing guitar shuac? Longer than him? And unless he's in drop D then i imagine it's harder to stretch your fingers across the fret to the EAD strings at that age. Especially with a million gigawatts of adrenaline flowing through him at being on stage with them.

I'm new to learning guitar, but i'm pretty happy when i can string a simple song together even just in power chords. Most people can't.

AH HA! I did find a mistake. The data I pulled was for all of Texas, not just Austin (I didn't think it sounded right, 66 gigawatts is high even for a time traveling Delorean). We used closer to 2.7 gigawatts. Even so, as Texas manages its own grid, the original number would most likely still be relevant, though, you could diffuse that across the state among all your power distribution centers. Your still only talking about an hour of power at the theoretical level, and that isn't great when you consider the volatility factor of renewables. But I digress.

@deathcow

Ooooh... I see. I thought it was eye level, but it's more like Frozen Synapse. A gigawatt could be dangerous, though, as it would still reflect 36,000 watts back through the wall, and that'll pop a lot of Jolly Time.

Is pretty impressive that the display is an X/Y top down... needs a mouse where you can just click on a colored blob to send an extra gigawatt into that 1 sq ft area.

>> ^EMPIRE:


First of all... how much electricity does the machine need to transform, say... 1 kg of plastic?


That's easy: 1.21 Gigawatts!

I love it... OK, the thing is megawatts, but they keep wanting to say its gigawatts, so they explain how it creates an "effective gigawatt" by focusing the energy. OK, I'll allow this. THEN.. they go on to say... they wanted 10 gigawatts, and they talked about all the way up to 100 gigawatts, which if beamed for an hour and a half, would equal the power of a hydrogen bomb.

Thus HAARP is "comparable" to a hydrogen bomb!

biodiesel is better. Heck 60-100mpg diesel is better.

Where the hell do you think the "electric" magically comes from?
Yes, dynamic breaking is good and 4-wheel direct drive DC motors with new battery technology is great for weight and maintenance.

But if everyone bought electric cars we would end up using MORE energy, MORE petroleum. Just because you think this is the best think ever.. it isn't.

Energy loss from generation to transmission to homes.. charging losses, electric motor losses, storage losses. Sure gas is converted mostly to heat, but you have less energy loss from 1 gallon of petroleum in a combustion engine, then 1 gal burned at a power plant to power an electric car.

Do you have the aluminum mines and copper mines that will be require to move all these gigawatts to people's garages to charge their "green" pieces of crap? We would have to double the electric grid to meet the need. We would need to build power plants and transformers. Rechargeable batteries are about the most harmful thing ever to the environment. Get real. Right now turbo diesel is the best bet, maybe biodiesel if we ever get a source that can scale to more than a few hundred hobbyists.

This guy is like a real life mad scientist!

He's actually quite interesting considering all the things he's done in his lifetime as well as his stance on computers since he's VERY knowlegable in computer security. He reminds me of Doc in Back to the Future. I was waiting for him to talk about gigawatts.

>> ^RhesusMonk:
What the hell is a gigawatt?

It's a jiggawat, and it's an invented unit of energy coined in the 1980s movie Back to the Future.

What the hell is a gigawatt?

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
1.21 gigawatts? Great Scott!


you mean 1.21 jiggawatts, right?

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
1.21 gigawatts? Great Scott!


That's heavy.

1.21 gigawatts? Great Scott!

It's not a dupe, notice the lightning hits it, then the 1.21 gigawatts sends it a few seconds back in time and it gets hit again.