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Guenther @ Dec 15th 2007 11:28AM
Um, think you have a slight problem with your order of magnitude- 3 billion Watt is a little more than twice the power Doc Brown needed to send the DeLorean through time. If applied to 1500 lights, that would be 2 MW per light. Not possible. Never mind the size the conductors would need to be. Pretty sure you're looking for 3 million wats- which would be an appropriate 2kW per light.
J @ Dec 15th 2007 5:03PM
right, 3GW is twice a large nuclear power plant. unless the rest of the country completely shuts down, thats not gonna happen.
tex @ Dec 15th 2007 8:52PM
Nice fact checking Autoblog. Please correct.
It's 3 million watts, not billion. Duh.
Stadium lights are typically 1500 watts each, so if you're generous and round up 1500 bulbs x 1500 watts = 2.25 million watts you get around 3 million watts.