What is "gigawatt"

Usage examples of "gigawatt".

But what was the purpose of the noise, which took gigawatts to produce?

This had cost the Shaper economy many gigawatts of precious energy and tons of rare metals and isotopes.

Jones, Vicarro and Templeton thought nothing of making the poor kid crawl out on the bowsprit to knock off the icicles forming on the gigantic pole --without telling him that it would all melt off in seconds if we sent out a burst transmissions the Albatross can generate several gigawatts of power.

No increase in temperature of the Pyramid is detectible, even when incident absorbed radiation is at the gigawatt level.

The Yankees kept trying to model the airflows with inadequate computers, and we, we built a gigawatt of nuclear power stations, used the whole Dniester for cooling, to get that damned Mach-18 quarter-scale windtunnel.

It exists solely to provide Alpha Centauri system with products of the very highest sophistication-products whose manufacture demands zero gravity or unlimited high vacuum or gigawatts of solar power.

Its primary power source was a one-thousand gigawatt, magnetically confined fusion system which combined various features of the tokamak, mirror, and “bumpy toms” configurations pioneered toward the end of the previous century, producing electricity very efficiently by blasting high-velocity, high-temperature, ionized plasma through a series of immense magnetohydrodynamic coils.

Men who did the basic thinking that led to gigawatt particle accelerators.

Although the solitary wave carried within it uncountable gigawatts of energy, Jon and the Spindrift were quite safe.