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sk now on with the show buckle up ladies
and gents this time we're checking out
one of my favorites dr. Emmett Brown
time-traveling DeLorean where we're
going we don't need roads I'm Jocelyn
the intern I do all the research nobody
else wants to straight from the cast dog
yes battle everyone agrees Doc Brown's
DeLorean is cool but not everyone knows
just how literal that really is turns
out this sports car wasn't the good
doctor's first time-traveling device
problem was he learned that when an
object travels through time the flux
energy produced by the trip causes it to
burst into flames
yikes the DeLorean is the perfect time
traveling machine it's stainless steel
finish disperses the flux energy heat
but that alone isn't enough so Braun
develops a flux capacitor a capacitor
normally stores electrical energy but
this one specifically traps the energy
produced by time travel preventing
spontaneous combustion pretty rad right
till all this really leans more toward
the fiction side of the sci-fi barometer
except for the amount of power needed to
get the DeLorean time hopping going wash
it off
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does that sound like a made-up
measurement to you a lot of people think
so but fun fact it's not
Doc Brown is actually referencing the
unit we generally know as gigawatt but
why does he say it with a J sound well
according to the merriam-webster
dictionary gigawatt is actually the
official pronunciation of the word
technically he's not pronouncing it
wrong all the rest of us are anyway one
gigawatt they're gigawatt is the
equivalent of about 1 billion joules per
second you would need more than 1
million horses to match that in
horsepower
1.21 jigowatts is a crap ton of energy
and the dog wasn't kidding when he said
he would need a nuclear reactor as of
2015 America's smallest nuclear power
plant has a single reactor which
generates about 500 megawatts which
would power up our DeLorean in just over
two seconds but if that's too long of a
wait for you Arizona has a plant with
three nuclear reactors generating a
staggering 3.9 gigawatts a second more
than enough to power our Steel II time
machine in the blink of an eye so
valleys great null but if Doc Brown was
really that passionate about his science
work he should have just moved to
Arizona there's like a new power plants
around every corner over there so we've
got our powered up DeLorean let's say
the flux capacitor isn't working today
and we don't want to risk burning up in
the timestream because that would be bad
what else can you do with 1.21 jigowatts
well you could power a light bulb for
about a hundred and forty days or one of
those fancy LED bulbs for four years
what if you crammed all that energy into
a different electric cars say a
super-fast
Tesla Model S P 100 D and the coolest
car ever
1.21 jigowatts could charge our 100 kWh
battery a little more than three times
giving our cool a/c ride enough juice to
travel over 900 miles that might not
sound as impressive as time travel but
hey at least you have comfortable seats
and 0 to 60 in under 3 seconds
oh and James Bond mode did I mention
James Bond mode well ladies and gents
I'm afraid I have to get back to the lab
you know science stuff but while I'm
gone
science thing feel free to leave a
suggestion for any episodes you might
want to see in the future bye