[aruanan]

"The volcano is far more powerful than any eruption recorded by scientists on Earth, with an estimated power output of about 78,000 gigawatts. By comparison, the power produced by the last significant eruption of Mount Etna in Italy in 1992 was just 12 gigawatts."

How many gigawatts did it take for the flux capacitor to power the DeLorean back to the future? Was it 1.2 gigawatts?

[krizzy]

That would be 1.21 gigawatts

[Mark17]

How many gigawatts did it take for the flux capacitor to power the DeLorean back to the future? Was it 1.2 gigawatts?

LOL, I figured someone would ask. I think it was 1.21 gigawatts.

[Physicist]

How many gigawatts did it take for the flux capacitor to power the DeLorean back to the future? Was it 1.2 gigawatts?

Of course, Watts are a measure of power, which is energy per unit time, so a 1.2 GW device isn't necessarily out of line with a 12 GW eruption. The eruption operates for a much longer period.