From longflare at yahoo.com.au Mon Jan 31 22:28:22 2005 From: longflare at yahoo.com.au (Crispian's new address [Jan05]) Date: Mon Jan 31 04:28:33 2005 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Back to the future... Message-ID: <815fff95a7a64d69ff4d9d317bb7bd73@yahoo.com.au> The, 'Flux capacitor', in the DeLorean in the movie, 'Back to the future', uses 21.1 Gigawatts of energy to activate the time displacement circuit. I'd like to hear more about the supposed physics behind this, but I haven't had time to re-watch the trilogy thirty-five times. At at least one stage in the stories, the DeLorean fails to proceed due to lack of petroleum, as it still utilizes the standard V6 engine. (I assume this develops approximately 150-200 kw of power) I have mucked around with cars, car engines, turbos, etc. for some time now, and I can't understand why Doc didn't tweak it a little. It seems to take sooooo long to get to the required 88mph. There are a few cars that have been very highly developed that put out around 1000kw, although I don't know how many people can manage that much power on tap. My question is, How difficult would it actually be to create 21.1 Gigawatts, (and contain it), and why not make 21.10001 Gigawatts and divert the left over power to electric traction engines in each wheel, and remove the original driveline to save weight. Looking forward to the maddest contributions of the Mad-Scientists clan. Cheers, Crispian Bradley. From Cswain136 at cs.com Mon Jan 31 13:20:24 2005 From: Cswain136 at cs.com (Cswain136@cs.com) Date: Mon Jan 31 11:20:55 2005 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Back to the future... Message-ID: <15.3d685a3c.2f2fd0e8@cs.com> Sorry, I've never gotten past the intricacies of a 69 VW bug engine myself, but good luck in your quest. Caren -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://Mad-Scientists.ORG/pipermail/mad-scientists/attachments/20050131/2294dcea/attachment.htm From javilk at mall-net.com Mon Jan 31 19:37:04 2005 From: javilk at mall-net.com (javilk@mall-net.com) Date: Mon Jan 31 12:37:07 2005 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Back to the future... In-Reply-To: <815fff95a7a64d69ff4d9d317bb7bd73@yahoo.com.au> from "Crispian's new address [Jan05]" at Jan 31, 2005 10:28:22 PM Message-ID: <20050131193704.74286.qmail@mall-net.com> > The, 'Flux capacitor', in the DeLorean in the movie, 'Back to the > future', uses 21.1 Gigawatts of energy to activate the time > displacement circuit. I'd like to hear more about the supposed physics > behind this, but I haven't had time to re-watch the trilogy thirty-five > times. Yea, right, Hollywood mad scientists! Not even bright enough to be called scientists, nevermind mad! And you believe them??? Listen, I've got a couple of historic used cars on the moon I'd like to sell. Very Low Mileage! Interested? (Though I know of someone who is using extreme capacitances to try to levitate things. I've forwarded your post to him in effort to get him to join.) (I found you guys have a link to my mad scientist cartoon http;//www.mall-net.com/javilk/madsci.html on your home page.) -J- (Javilk@mall-net.com) ------------------------www.mall-net.com/javilk One slightly used ex-husband, good condition, likes thinking, walking --- Sitting forlornly in Hecate's Used Husband Lot, The Moonlight Zone. ----- E-mail me for info on how to preview this Fine Classical Merchandise. --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Try Javilk - SWM From tblemur at yahoo.com Mon Jan 31 13:50:28 2005 From: tblemur at yahoo.com (Matt) Date: Mon Jan 31 14:50:55 2005 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Back to the future... In-Reply-To: <815fff95a7a64d69ff4d9d317bb7bd73@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: <20050131215029.61269.qmail@web30208.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I thunk it was 1.21 GW, not 21.1 GW --- "Crispian's new address [Jan05]" wrote: > The, 'Flux capacitor', in the DeLorean in the movie, 'Back to the > future', uses 21.1 Gigawatts of energy to activate the time > displacement circuit. I'd like to hear more about the supposed physics > behind this, but I haven't had time to re-watch the trilogy thirty-five > times. > > At at least one stage in the stories, the DeLorean fails to proceed due > to lack of petroleum, as it still utilizes the standard V6 engine. (I > assume this develops approximately 150-200 kw of power) > > I have mucked around with cars, car engines, turbos, etc. for some time > now, and I can't understand why Doc didn't tweak it a little. It seems > to take sooooo long to get to the required 88mph. > > There are a few cars that have been very highly developed that put out > around 1000kw, although I don't know how many people can manage that > much power on tap. > > My question is, How difficult would it actually be to create 21.1 > Gigawatts, (and contain it), and why not make 21.10001 Gigawatts and > divert the left over power to electric traction engines in each wheel, > and remove the original driveline to save weight. > > Looking forward to the maddest contributions of the Mad-Scientists clan. > Cheers, > Crispian Bradley. > > _______________________________________________ > Mad-Scientists mailing list > Mad-Scientists@Mad-Scientists.ORG > http://www.mad-scientists.org/mailman/listinfo/mad-scientists > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page – Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com From huricain at pacbell.net Mon Jan 31 20:50:22 2005 From: huricain at pacbell.net (bonusjack) Date: Mon Jan 31 21:50:35 2005 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Back to the future... In-Reply-To: <815fff95a7a64d69ff4d9d317bb7bd73@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: <20050201045022.89940.qmail@web81606.mail.yahoo.com> the question is, how disapate all the heat that 1.21 gigs will produce in the flux unit. in one movie they used lightning to produce the needed 1.21 gigs to deliver the needed power to the time unit. lightning produces heat hotter than the suns surface. so before switching the power on make sure the unit is nowhere inside the passenger compartment. i wish things where that simple "Crispian's new address [Jan05]" wrote:The, 'Flux capacitor', in the DeLorean in the movie, 'Back to the future', uses 21.1 Gigawatts of energy to activate the time displacement circuit. I'd like to hear more about the supposed physics behind this, but I haven't had time to re-watch the trilogy thirty-five times. At at least one stage in the stories, the DeLorean fails to proceed due to lack of petroleum, as it still utilizes the standard V6 engine. (I assume this develops approximately 150-200 kw of power) I have mucked around with cars, car engines, turbos, etc. for some time now, and I can't understand why Doc didn't tweak it a little. It seems to take sooooo long to get to the required 88mph. There are a few cars that have been very highly developed that put out around 1000kw, although I don't know how many people can manage that much power on tap. My question is, How difficult would it actually be to create 21.1 Gigawatts, (and contain it), and why not make 21.10001 Gigawatts and divert the left over power to electric traction engines in each wheel, and remove the original driveline to save weight. Looking forward to the maddest contributions of the Mad-Scientists clan. Cheers, Crispian Bradley. _______________________________________________ Mad-Scientists mailing list Mad-Scientists@Mad-Scientists.ORG http://www.mad-scientists.org/mailman/listinfo/mad-scientists -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://Mad-Scientists.ORG/pipermail/mad-scientists/attachments/20050131/70ae2c17/attachment.htm