Daily blog (audio): It’s the 1.21 gigawatts that’s relevant [Doc Brown at the Clock Tower?]

<p>It’s the 1.21 gigawatts that’s relevant [Doc Brown at the Clock Tower?]</p> <p><br> <br> We're on a mission to help one million people RISE by 2030 - join the movement at <a href="http://www.myrise.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.myrise.co.uk</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>I was walking past the old clock tower that used to be part of Macclesfield hospital the other day.</p> <p>A quick Google tells me it got turned into it’s current format of flats in 2011.</p> <p>As you can see from the attached image, it has some scaffolding up at the moment.</p> <p>I posted this picture on my Facebook profile with the comment “Anyone else see this and think someone’s setting up to harness 1.21 gigawatts?”</p> <p>A reference, in case you didn’t know, to the film Back To The Future.</p> <p>Where, at the end, Doc Brown runs a cable down from the clock tower he knows is about to be struck by lightning………</p> <p>In order to send the power of the lightning down the cable and into the Delorean time machine……..</p> <p>Allowing it to be sent back to 1985.</p> <p>You see, the Delorean famously needs two things to travel through time.</p> <p>It needs to be going at 88mph.</p> <p>And it needs 1.21 gigawatts of energy.</p> <p>Over the course of the three films Doc Brown found a number of ways to generate the amount of energy needed.</p> <p>Different methods.</p> <p>Plutonium to start.</p> <p>Lightning to get back to 1985.</p> <p>Household rubbish from Marty’s bin at the end of the first film.</p> <p>And whatever is used in the train pushed Deloren and the Time Train (not explained I believe).</p> <p>Different methods of achieving the required energy levels.</p> <p>All perfectly valid.</p> <p>If they achieve the numbers needed.</p> <p>Ineffective if they don’t.</p> <p>All equally effective when energy matched.</p> <p>That it is nuclear material, lightning or rubbish wouldn’t matter if it wasn’t achieving those energy levels.</p> <p>Like many eating approaches.</p> <p>Intermittent Fasting.</p> <p>Points.</p> <p>Different coloured days.