Re: Potential Transformer

To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Potential Transformer
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 07:49:19 -0500
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From: 	richard hull[SMTP:rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net]
Sent: 	Thursday, September 18, 1997 3:04 AM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	Re: Potential Transformer

At 11:35 PM 9/17/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>From: 	Greg Leyh[SMTP:lod-at-pacbell-dot-net]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, September 17, 1997 5:10 AM
>To: 	Tesla List
>Subject: 	Re: Potential Transformer
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>Tesla List wrote:
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>> "Rubber glove (with a leather over it for *high* voltage), rubber sleeve,
>> rubber vest, rubber floor mat, face shield, spotter with rope and cane.
>> Different combinations are required for different levels of voltage."
>>         All of that for 50 volts, not 50 kilovolts?????  How dan (then?)
>> can you do anything with such a rubber glove on your hand?
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>You can't -- that's why government laboratories are leaning more towards
>simulating physics on computers these days.  The hazards of dealing with
>computers (carpal tunnel, radiation, malignment of social skills) are far
>easier to deal with than the dangers of actual research.
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>-GL
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Well spoken Greg!  Kim Goins and I are really hacked at this drift away
from hands-on in physics and the sciences.  Still, it seems the wave of the
future to simulate instelf of stimulate.

Richard Hull, TCBOR
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