Talk:Jigawatt

in the 1980s nuclear houses offered 1.1 jigawatts of power. However you needed 1.21 jigawatts of power to power the flux capacitor. This flux capacitor figured out the magnetic waves that surround the earth and its current radio frequencies. When frequencies are sent out, there is a past and present to them. So in the 1980s, about the only source you could get 1.21 gigawatts of power from was a lightning bolt or a very controlled power source, with much resistance to bring down amps. Lightning was a source of 1.21 jigawatts in the 1980s. Of course, this could be a fictional discussion. --Cyberman 05:23, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

BBC 2017 documentary on a trip to Alpah Centuri uses both gigawatts and jigawatts as a unit of electrical power. The professor seems to indicate that a jigawatt is an order of magnitude higher than a gigawatt but it is unclear why.

Fictional measurement?

This could probably be removed. 'Jiga' is an acceptable pronunciation of the Giga prefix, though the introduction of gigabytes as a common term meant that it's often seen as being either mispronounced, or fictional. --Tarison 04:56, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The film's writers Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale intended for the power to be gigawatts, but heard it pronounced as "jigawatt" and as such spelt and said it that way in the script, not learning the real pronounciation until after the film had been shot.

Should that not be real spelling? The JPS 03:44, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Agree, the unit is neither fictional nor mispronounced. See also SI prefixes#Pronunciation. -- Coneslayer 23:12, 2005 Mar 18 (UTC)

I move to merge and redirect, without the claim of fictionality or mispronunciation. I have already added some information from this article to Flux capacitor. Eric119 02:35, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

This is not quite true. Pronouncing it with a J sound is the very old method of speaking this word. As time passed, people started pronouncing it differently, with both g's sounding like a G. Older engineers, professors, and instructors would still pronounce it with the J-sound for decades. This is what I was taught (the J) when I attended college to receive my Electronics Engineering Degree.

Dictionary.com: gigawatt n. [gig-uh-wot, jig-]

Webster.com: gigawatt noun giga·watt \ ˈji-gə-ˌwät , ˈgi- \

Pronouncing it either way is correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.255.5.206 (talk) 20:30, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

This is necessary!

Do we really need a separate article to discuss how a movie pronounced a single word? This kind of information is best stated in Back to the Future or flux capacitor article. <-- #fakenews (At any rate it is misleading to call it a fictional unit, because they certainly were actually trying to use a real one.) Eric119 05:19, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Yes we do. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.193.75.188 (talk) 14:47, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Lol

This redirect isn't helping

In principle I agree with the fact that Jigawatt probably doesn't need its own entry. However, when the word I'm looking up isn't even in the entry that it redirects to, I come away thoroughly confused. To make it clearer: Jigawatt isn't even mentioned in that article this redirects to. That means that someone who doesn't know what a Jigawatt is will only find out that it (apparently) has to do with a time machine from an 80s movie. This is not optimal --Kamagurka (talk) 20:09, 29 March 2010 (UTC)