RE: capacitance of homemade caps

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Original poster: Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t@xxxxxxxxx>

Most houses now use PCV sewer and PVC or Polybutylene
water pipe. Even if you make it to the "street", most
utilities still use plastic. You're more likely to
have a metal water pipe (DIP) than sewer pipe.

Adam

--- Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Original poster: "Lau, Gary" <gary.lau@xxxxxx>
>
> Well there are crappy grounds, and then there are
> crappy grounds
> (couldn't resist)!   But seriously, most household
> waste water pipes
> these days are PVC.  Not sure what they are under
> the streets, but it's
> not clear that they'd be metallic.  Cold water
> supply pipes are much
> more likely to connect to a ground-worthy buried
> metal pipe.
>
> Gary Lau
> MA, USA
>
>
>  > Original poster: Terry Fritz
> <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> <snip>
>  > There are some folks that "flush" some bare wire
> down the toilet to
> get to
>  > the sewer pipes which are very well grounded...
> Sort of "extreme",
> but
>  > "electrically" sound ;-))  Might not be good at
> the top floor of a
> tall
>  > building ;-))
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  >
>  >          Terry
>
>
>