Re: History Channel

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Original poster: "Jim Mora by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jmora-at-jetlink-dot-net>

Hello All,

Yes, that was a fascinating pair of shows. The lightning shots were
spectacular. I used to live in tornado alley in the Midwest, and watched
many such awesome displays.  And I had a few close encounters too.

As far as the steel suits, capacitance discharge,  E fields, and traversing
the lines in howling, high winds across the Mojave desert, well...one has to
love pigeons.

I seem to remember watching a BW movie about HV linepeople many years ago,
very young (I'm 53). Someone fell to a substation from a high tension tower.
It was frightening, memorable,  yet real, given the statistics we heard last
night. Anyone know what that movie might be?

Tesla received poor recognition in my view.

Jim Mora
Ojai, Ca. US
Born Shorem, LI, NY.





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Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: History Channel


 > Original poster: "Charles Brush by way of Terry Fritz
<teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <cfbrush-at-interport-dot-net>
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 > >>  > Tomorrow night the History Channel has a double feature, i.e. Modern
 > >>  > Marvels on "Lightning" and then a show on "High Voltage".
 > >
 > >--
 > >         best
 > >         dwp
 >
 >
 > So who else watched?  The lighting program was interesting and had some
 > nice footage of Danny Greenhouse's large coil among other things.  The
high
 > voltage program was very good as well.  I found the "barehanding"
technique
 > used on some ultra high voltage lines particularly interesting.  Basically
 > they use a sort of bucket truck with a highly insulated arm.  As the
worker
 > is raised near the line, he extends a cable on a pole toward the high
 > tension line, clips it on to the line, and raises himself and the bucket
to
 > the same potential as the line.  What was interesting was that the pole
was
 > drawing an arc a few feet long as it was nearing the line.  Even though
the
 > worker is insulated from the ground, he and the bucket still have enough
 > capacitance that they create a load.  There was a similar technique shown
 > using a helicopter with the worker sitting on a pontoon and doing the same
 > thing....pulling a pretty big arc and then connecting the helicopter and
 > himself to the line to elevate it to the same potential as the
 > line.  Pretty scary stuff.  They wear conductive suits while they are
doing
 > this since the capacitive effect is a bit uncomfortable when you are
 > actually on the cable (not surprising!).
 >
 >
 > Zap!
 >
 >
 > Charles Brush
 > http://www.VoltNet-dot-com
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