30 gigawatts

Giga is a capitalized prefix. Always.

From which we can safely conclude that it is normally written lower case.

Good to know, Thanks!

The *abbreviation* is capitalized, GW rather than gW, TW rather than tW etc.

No, when written out as a *word*, gigawatts, terawatts etc is fine and how it is normally written. As per title of this thread. Look it up, here are the first couple of links.

Do you have any authoritative source for your assertion that "gigawatt" must *always* be capitalized? Because it almost never is, as far as I can see.

The International Bureau of Weights and Measures explicitly states that

" All prefix names are printed in lower case letters, except at the beginning of a sentence."

See p121 of this document:

Then again - bloody french - what do they know about the metric system?

Which pretty much sums up all you know about things.

John

He's AlwaysWrong.

John

Surely this talent can be put to better use.

Is there a Higgs boson? He could have saved us billions!

P=NP? An answer could revolutionise computing!

Nice valve by the way.

That's a lot like Sears HorsePower isn't it? (maximum instantaneous developed)

If you had used Planck Time you could have claimed ZettaYotta Watts! Or is it Yotta Zetta Watts? Art

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Guffaw!

I still think we should get GigaWrong to pick stocks for us.

George H.

I was thinking that myself. We'd get rich fast, shorting the stuff he recommends.

John

You can always find numbers laying around to multiply, to make impressive products. But these gadgets could actually dump gigawatts (with a little 'g') into a load, if you were careful about the inductances. I wonder if there's a surface-mount version.

John

"John Larkin" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

Microstrip seems unlikely, but coaxial transmission lines would be nice.

What's the Z-Machine use for trigger, laser pulses? It's a pretty awesome bit of energy to squish down to a couple milimeters.

Tim

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you a mixing apples a pears,

giga just a word, 'G' as a prefix meaning 1e9 is capitalized

'g' is gravity, 'K' is kelvin

milli and mega are also just words, but there's a big difference between 'm' and 'M' as a prefix

-Lasse

What's the matter, Johnny boy? Is your stupid, immature moniker failing... again?

Your nym should be "already dead". Because your brain already is, and you did it to yourself. Shame your ass doesn't follow.

You're always asking for it.

Do you know what that colloquialism means, john?

Better start looking over your shoulder. One never knows what could come up behind you and drag you back to the tar pits where you belong.

You are so dense, you would never surface again.

Look it up. It is called the Z Pinch.

Simple google search? I can do that!

You're wrong!

You're wrong!

You're wrong!

You're AlwaysWrong!

John

Hi Lasses,

Are you replying to me?

I know all that, that is exactly what I just said!

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Thank you. That is the kind of real smack down that the result of grade school alternate education losers really needs.

?-)

"High-voltage, High-energy Switching Applications"

Just what I need for my fridge timer project. Thanks.

Sylvia.