Re: Water Spark Gaps

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-jpl.nasa.gov>

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "davep by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
<davep-at-quik-dot-com>
> 
> (old matter...)

> 
> > Water is naturally a great insulator as the electrons
> > are very strongly bound to the water molecules. I had heard abous some
> > powerstation substations or transformers that used very very pure water to
> > insulate them.
> 
>         Yep.  'bout 10 miles from here is the 'receive' station
>         for the +/- 500KVDC link from Canada.  It powers (in part)
>         this message.  HV engineering on a massive scale.  To insulate
>         and cool the inverter stacks, they use a high tech,
>         environmentally friendly, biologically friendly, 100% recylable
>         fluid.
> 
>         One Guess....
> 

Why Hydrogen Hydroxide, nature's friend... (or DiHydrogen Monoxide, as
referred to on the Ban DHMO web sites...)

Also used to water cool big transmitting tubes, for instance, although
that's only a few 10's of kV