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  • Buckle up, ladies and gents, this time we're checking out one of my favorites, Dr Emmett Brown's time Traveling DeLorean.

  • Where we're going, we don't need roads.

  • I'm just on the intern.

  • I do all the research nobody else wants to.

  • Straight from the desk of Death 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.

  • Aches.

  • 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 Brown developed the 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?

  • Still, all this really leans more toward the fiction side of the SciFi barometer, except for the amount of power needed to get the DeLorean's time hopping going point play.

  • 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 there.

  • Gigawatt is the equivalent of about one billion jewels per second.

  • You would need more than one million horses.

  • To match that in horsepower, one 0.21 gigawatts is a crap ton of energy, and the dark 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 steely time machine in the blink of an eye.

  • Hill Valley's great null.

  • But if Doc Brown was really that passionate about his science work, he should have just moved to Arizona.

  • There's like new power plans 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 time stream because that that would be bad.

  • What else can you do with 1.21 gigawatts?

  • Well, you could power a light bulb for about 140 days or one of those fancy led bulbs for four years.

  • What if you crammed all that energy into a different electric car?

  • Say, a superfast Tesla model s p 100 d m.

  • The coolest car ever, 1.21 gigawatts.

  • Could charge are 100 kwh battery a little more than three times giving our classy 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 three 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 for, you know, science stuff.

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