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Is it a Gigawatt or a Jigawatt?

Posted on December 26, 2021January 28, 2022 By dplivingston_au782a
Is it a Gigawatt or a Jigawatt?

We all know what Doc Brown said in the first movie. “I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need”. But he pronounced gigawatts as if it were spelled with a “j”, as in jigawatts (or jigowatts). Being an electrical engineer, I had heard the prefix “Giga” pronounced many times…

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