[opendtv] Re: California Prepares to Limit TV Energy Use

  • From: Cliff Benham <flyback1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:30:27 -0400

Some microwave guys from Speery I know call them 'jigacycles' and 'jigawatts'. So that may be where it came from...


dan.grimes@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:32:17 -0700
From: Ron Economos <w6rz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [opendtv] Re: California Prepares to Limit TV Energy Use

"... that's 2.4 gigawatts, or about twice as much as you
need to be propelled back to the future in a DeLorean." -Ron

Let's not mix up Doc's jigawatts with the gigawatt.

Then again, perhaps it really was a gigawatt:

www.deloreanmotorcar.com/ec/jigawatts.htm






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