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	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		A gigaton (or gigatonne) is a metric unit of mass, equal to 1,000,000,000 (1 billion) metric tons, 1,000,000,000,000 (1 trillion) kilograms, or 1 quadrillion grams.
		A gigaton is equal to 1,000 megatons, and is from the same family of terms.
		An earthquake measuring an 8.0 on the Richter scale releases the equivalent of approximately 1.01 gigatons of TNT; the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake is estimated to have released the equivalent of 100 gigatons of TNT.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=gigaton (320 words)

	Gigaton - Definition, explanation
		A gigaton (or gigatonne) is a Metric Unit of mass, equal to 1,000,000,000 (1 billion) Metric tonss, 1,000,000,000,000 (1 trillion) kilograms, or 1 quadrillion grams.
		A gigaton of TNT is more commonly used as a measure of energy equal to that released by 1 billion metric tons of TNT.
		Although the gigaton unit does not appear to be in common enough usage to warrant an official abbreviation, Gt would be the logical choice.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/g/gi/gigaton.php (328 words)

	Reason Magazine - Low Carbon Future?
		To reduce projected emissions by one gigaton per year in 2050, the world would have to build 1400 new one-gigawatt combined cycle gas turbine power plants to replace coal-fired plants.
		To avoid another gigaton of carbon emissions by 2050, would require building 700 one-gigawatt nuclear power plants rather than the equivalent conventional coal facilities.
		Finally, the WBCSD study included a possible fuel mix for the world in 2050 in which the world's power supply is doubled and emits nine gigatons of carbon per year.
	www.reason.com /news/printer/34946.html (991 words)

	Mining in Space
		At a 10% rate of discount, the present value of that gigaton is $170 billion.
		At a 30% rate of discount, the present value of that gigaton is $66 billion.
		Note, however, that no investor will put up a $100 billion to acquire that gigaton if his or her hoped-for rate of return is 30%...
	www.rattlesnake.com /notions/space-mining.html (989 words)

	The Wedge Approach to Climate Change
		At 1 gigaton apiece, each technology wedge still represents a huge investment, but they are nonetheless conceivable.
		Introduce carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) at 800 GW worth of coal plants or 1,600 GW worth of natural gas plants (U.S. coal plants have an average capacity of roughly 1 GW).
		7 gigatons of reductions are needed to achieve stabilization, so 7 of 15 wedges would, in theory, reach that goal.
	www.wri.org /climate/topic_content.cfm?cid=4229 (501 words)

	Hispanic American Center for Economic Research - Our Low Carbon Future?
		Humanity currently emits about 7 gigatons of carbon (excluding traditional biomass burning of 1gigaton) annually in the form of carbon dioxide.
		The remaining 2 gigatons can be avoided by a combination of increased energy efficiency in appliances and buildings, more mass transit, and some societal changes.
		That would mean that instead of emitting 7 gigatons of carbon in 2050 under the WBCSD scenario, the world would emit only 2.8 gigatons of carbon annually.
	www.hacer.org /cop10/dec15.php (1042 words)

	1-4 Atmospheric Composition, Carbon Dioxide - Text
		One gigaton is the equivalent of one petagram, and one gigaton of water is the equivalent of about one cubic kilometer.
		The major cause, by far, for the rise in concentrations of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere is the burning of fossil fuels.
		Figure 9 shows the fossil fuel emissions in gigatons per year as a function of time.
	www.geology.iastate.edu /gccourse/chem/gases/gases_lecture_new.html (3464 words)

	GIGATON GmbH, Hessen - DEUTSCHLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		GIGATON ist ein führender Anbieter für standardisierte Lagerverwaltungssysteme mit besonderer Ausrichtung auf Logistikdienstleister.
		Aus der Tradition heraus, umfassende und komplexe logistische Prozesse zu steuern, hat sich zwischenzeitlich ein breites Lagersteuerungs- und Organisationssystem entwickelt, das seine Schwerpunkte in den Branchen Lebensmittel, Tiernahrung, Chemie, Pharma, Textil, Reifen, Merchandising- und Lifestyleprodukte, Elektronik, Food- und Nonfood-Handel wie auch in den verarbeitenden Industrien der Metall- und Kunststoffbranche hat.
		GIGATON beschäftigt sich neben dem Kerngebiet der reinen Standardsoftwareentwicklung auch mit der logistischen und technischen Beratung, Planung, Unterstützung und dem Management in der Umsetzung von Lagerlogistik-Projekten auf der Basis von LogoS C/S. Zwischenzeitlich sind über 35 Mitarbeiter in drei Unternehmensbereichen - Softwareentwicklung, technische Systemplattformen sowie Beratung und Support - für über 150 Projekte beschäftigt.
	www.logismarket.de /gigaton-gmbh/847351723-c.html (198 words)

	forget bush and kyoto rejection - watch the states and the corporations \| energies news at abelard.org
		That means that the rate of growth in nuclear power generation needs to be 4 percent per year rather than the current 2.5 percent.
		One more gigaton of emissions could be cut if the world's projected 2 billion vehicles in 2050 got 60 miles rather than 30 miles to the gallon.
		Biofuels derived from 250 million hectares of high yield crops could avoid another gigaton of carbon emitted per year in 2050.
	www.abelard.org /news/energy0407.php (2220 words)

	Richmond IMC: home/10521
		As if Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not horrible enough reminders of what damage even a kiloton sized nuclear device can do, the US military has developed the technology to create a gigaton sized (the resulting explosion being equivalent to at least one billion tons of TNT) nuclear bomb.
		This means that one of these bombs would be at least 7000 times as powerful as the first nuclear device dropped in anger.
		The reason why we need to look into the development of Gigaton Bombs is simple: Because there is more to learn, and our survival depends on it.
	richmond.indymedia.org /print_newswire.php?id=10521 (1004 words)

	When do you Abort? - HERO GAMES Discussion Boards
		P.S. If you want to know more about how my GM adjudicated the situation, after we had seen a few of Gigaton's blasts, the GM gave us a Perception roll to see if we could determine what kind of blast was coming at us before making the Abort decision.
		If Gigaton is using an AOE attack it is reasonable to assume that he is targeting your character's hex (DCV 3) instead of your character directly.
		Since CKC doesn't describe Gigaton's SFX, the GM could have said all of his various blasts look alike, so there's no way to tell which one he's firing.
	www.herogames.com /forums/showthread.php?t=26837 (2362 words)

	gigaton - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		gigaton : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
		gigaton : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=gigaton (99 words)

	V1003 Science and Society - Global Carbon Cycle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		An example would the plant growth, which takes carbon from the atmosphere reservoir and "fixes" it as plant-based carbon (leaves).
		The fundamental unit of measurement of Carbon at planetary cycling scales is the Gigaton.
		One gigaton is equal to one billion tons of carbon (or 10^15 g).
	www.ldeo.columbia.edu /edu/dees/V1003/lectures/global_carbon_cycle (1696 words)

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		· Basically the white paper sketching out a plan for a gigaton deep-ocean MeV threshold energy anti-neutrino detector, survived the critical discussions.
		Gadolinium chloride is very interesting, but world supplies may be a problem (at the gigaton detector size).
		· There needs to be study of the gigaton array design, in terms of module sizes, detectors, noise rates, threshold sensitivity, backgrounds and depth, etc.
	www.phys.hawaii.edu /~jgl/nacw_summary.html (869 words)

	Cloudy With a Chance of Chaos - Jan. 17, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		To do that, carbon emissions would have to be reduced ultimately by seven gigatons a year.
		A gigaton, or a billion tons, is even bigger than it sounds.
		Eliminating just one, argues Browne, would mean building 700 nuclear stations to replace fossil-fuel-burning power plants, or increasing the use of solar power by a factor of 700, or stopping all deforestation and doubling present efforts at reforestation.
	money.cnn.com /2006/01/17/news/economy/climate_fortune/index.htm (3977 words)

	ST-v-SW.Net :: Additional ICS Comments
		We're told of 200 gigaton weapons aboard capital ships of the Old Republic, kiloton-level fighter and anti-fighter weapons, et cetera.
		One such back-engineering effort was confirmed by some SpaceBattles posters who claimed to have e-mailed Saxton and learned where he got his 200 gigaton starship cannon yields.
		All you need is total planetary slagging within an hour, if not minutes, which is what Saxton argues for on his site's BDZ page (because he picks from the air the value of one orbit for a BDZ).
	www.st-v-sw.net /STSWICS.html (1873 words)

	Figure 4.1. North American terrestrial carbon sink: Contribution of increasing CO2 and climate to carbon storage ...
		For the period 1980-1993, results from an ensemble of three models agree within 25 percent, simulating a land carbon sink from CO and climate effects of 0.
		08 gigaton (1 gigaton=1 billion tonnes) of carbon per year.
		The best estimates of the total sink from inventory data are about three times larger, suggesting that processes such as regrowth on abandoned agricultural land or in forests harvested before 1980 have effects as large as or larger than the direct effects of CO and climate.
	www.usgcrp.gov /usgcrp/images/ocp2003/ocpfy2003-fig4-1.htm (323 words)

	Gigaton-class Nuclear Weapons - jolt.co.uk public forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A single gigaton weapons can replace up to ten of the older megaton class, for near the same price.
		Up until the late 80s/ealy 90s the defense mechanism of chocie was a single 100 gigaton nuke (the nuclear physiacists had apparently calculated that one was possible) of course they never biult one as it would be more dangerous to the earth than the asteroid...
		Personbally i don't use nukes (i keep a couple in back up just incase though) and would rahter use a small tactical scale nuke as a demonstration rahter than just leveling things.
	forums.jolt.co.uk /showthread.php?t=314766 (1029 words)

	CNN.com - Scientists: Sumatra quake longest ever recorded - May 20, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Sumatra-Andaman quake released an amount of energy equal to a 100 gigaton bomb.
		This earthquake lasted between 500 and 600 seconds," said Charles Ammon, associate professor of geosciences at Penn State University.
		The quake released an amount of energy equal to a 100 gigaton bomb, according to Roger Bilham, professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado.
	edition.cnn.com /2005/TECH/science/05/19/sumatra.quake/index.html (810 words)

	Jedi Council Forums - Fleet Junkie Flagship- The technical discussions of the GFFA (Capital Ships thread Mk. II)
		There is nothing in the movies that indicate high-level gigaton or teraton firepower, neither in the EU for single heavy turbolasers.
		Vaporizing towns isn't gigaton level of firepower, and no where near teraton.
		One turbolaser shot, probably a medium, was enough to destroy a hill, well vape it.
	boards.theforce.net /literature/b10003/21527953/p333 (2409 words)

	Topic: METEORITE COLLISIONS
		A 100,000 megaton [100 gigaton] explosion hits on average every 250,000 years
		A 1000 megaton [gigaton] explosion of a 250 metre solid occurs on average every 10-15000 years.
		The solid slams into the surface or water as a dense debris cloud.
	www.webspawner.com /users/angelsas6 (1966 words)

	Wwycd: Doom!!!! - HERO GAMES Discussion Boards
		This is from a security camera in the facility." He then shows you a video of Gigaton Being killed by monsters.
		This is his last transmission." He now shows you a video of Gigaton attacking the robot.
		The video is shown as if you are looking out the eyes if the person."This is from Robotic Duplicate" The robot damages Gigaton before Gigaton rips it apart.
	www.herogames.com /forums/showthread.php?t=37696 (1582 words)

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