1.21 Gigawatts?! Great scott!

>> ^videosiftbannedme:
I always loved the way Doc Brown continued with the conversation after Marty called the DeLorean a "sucker":
"Whoa, Doc! Are you saying this sucker is NUCLEAR?!?"
"No, no, this sucker's electrical! But I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity that powers the flux capacitor."
Just makes me laugh that he's so into what he's talking about, he just adopts Marty's vocabulary. Great writing and acting right there.


My favorite line from this movie is, "There's that word again; "heavy". Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?" The genuinely interested way he asks, gets me everytime.

>> ^Payback:
It's disgusting when 76.5% of the world's people live without any electricity at all.


I think it's disgusting I don't have a time traveling DeLorean. I don't pity people who don't have electricity or think I'm disgusting for having it. In fact, some people in the US live 'off the grid' and they like it just fine. Mother Jones magazine has lots of good articles about it and they are good to read. What we're trying to do is educate people who live in areas that don't have electricity about ways to get clean water, use basic solar energy and do other things. They live comfortably.

>> ^cheesemoo:
Ok then, the total energy consumed by the USA in 2005, averaged over the year, gives an average energy usage rate of 3.3 terawatts. I think this includes not just energy used in electricity generation, but also energy used in cars, trains, airplanes, boats, etc...
Incidentally, that means we could have powered 2,727 time-traveling DeLoreans for the year.


No, it doesn't include cars, trains, boats and airplanes. You can't measure electricity usage in combustion engines.

As for the Doc's pronunciation, I think "jigowatt" is an accepted pronunciation, although not as common as the "gigawatt" that is more common today.

I always loved the way Doc Brown continued with the conversation after Marty called the DeLorean a "sucker":

"Whoa, Doc! Are you saying this sucker is NUCLEAR?!?"
"No, no, this sucker's electrical! But I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity that powers the flux capacitor."

Just makes me laugh that he's so into what he's talking about, he just adopts Marty's vocabulary. Great writing and acting right there.

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If it's not 1.21 gigawatts I'm not impressed.

that was wicked funny. nice find, i didn't see that one.
HA !

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! From youtube:

"This works, trust me. Once I had traveled back in time and was stuck in 1956 with no way of getting the 1.21 gigawatts I needed to get home. I hooked up 12 of these in series and it supplied the juice I needed."

Too bad he said giga, not jiga.

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! From youtube:

"This works, trust me. Once I had traveled back in time and was stuck in 1956 with no way of getting the 1.21 gigawatts I needed to get home. I hooked up 12 of these in series and it supplied the juice I needed."

Too bad he said giga, not jiga.

Actually, he's wrong, the flux capacitor was electric, but it needed the nuclear reactor to supply the 1.21 gigawatts of power....

what is HAARP, do we know??? No-we know what the Department of the Navy(all their "experts") and, Raytheon-(largest defense contractor in the world) says, but like any other subject or this nature, the masses are forty years late in their own bullshit, and ill-equipped to clarify......

This fucking thing pumps gigawatts of microwaves, into the ionosphere, to, what they told the curious in the beginning, "Study the Aurora Borealis".....give me a fucking break...that is straight outta area 51 swamp-gas shit!!!

Now.....the technology is based on a lotta' Tesla's ideas...what happened to Tesla when he did not want to play ball with the "visionaries" who wanted to give him the most money??????...He said, in essence...."Fuck the Military"


....read his bio, and see the process of the discrediting, and subsequent humiliating, end.....

and hey buggy, I like Dean Stockwell.....Kim and Ben.....two greatest roles.....

and, is'nt Wikepedia some blog-based consortium of purple monkey dishwasher, esp., one would suspect, on subjects with sensitive military applications????

1.21 gigawatts!

You only need 1.21 Gigawatts of power.