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Wait until all the cards fall. You can't take Jerry for too long.

Designs that rely on air insulation are far more reliable than those that rely on solid insulation -- air does not contain hidden voids, air does not arctrack, etc. etc. Air properties are uniform.

EEyore was 'slightly' smarter.

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But really, you can set any arbitrary clearance you want -- a few inches thickness of polyethylene is expensive, and very heavy. A few feet of air, even if it's dirty, dusty and full of rain and wind, costs absolutely nothing, and stands off more voltage.

You still need insulators, but these are still smaller than an equivalent thickness of insulation, and very robust. Come to think of it, if they're only porcelain, I'm surprised I haven't heard of them shattering.

Power distribution on Mars (thinking ahead, oh, only a few centuries) should be interesting at present atmospheric pressure: low enough that breakdown is substantially lower. You'd get corona, glow discharge and arc discharge, all in the same atmosphere. Might be worth insulating wires much more heavily.

Might be easy to make an "atmospheric pressure" CO2 laser though. Much like a N2 laser can be made on Earth, as long as you do it fast enough.

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bender, the first year I had my license. They immediately jacked up our premium by an "accident record surcharge." "My insurance" did not pay it so much as make me a loan -- they collected every bit of what it cost them, and more.

Sure, a new driver is going to get hammered but that's life. You still wouldn't/shouldn't be negotiating with the power company. It's what insurance does.

And as many of us can attest to, they come down in wind storms FAR less often.....

Well, all I can say is that is what they told me, and I see:

The system uses RF mesh technology, which allows meters and other sensing devices to securely route data via nearby meters and relay devices, creating a "mesh" of network coverage. The system supports two-way communication between the meter and PG&E.

The electric network access point collects meter data from nearby electric meters and periodically transfers this data to PG&E via a secure cellular network. Each RF mesh-enabled device (meters, relays) is connected to several other mesh-enabled devices, which function as signal repeaters, relaying the data to an access point.

Twin ground planes; hanging off extension arms above the comm height on the poles (I.e. inside PG&E's region...}

Oh, the state is going bankrupt. But the weather will still be great.

UG HV is a real pain in the ass. If the arc path length on an air line is like ten feet, and even more depending on the voltage. Then any UG node will arc immediately if there's ANY case breach, because there are no nodes underground that have nearest ground point ten feet away.

interrupts is vast.

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trees do not damage the power lines.

snow can tangle the lines, that's what happens here, perhaps they put the pylons too far apart.

Earthquakes will do it too :(

On a sunny day (Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:39:44 -0700) it happened Chieftain of the Carpet Crawlers wrote in :

So you are still hanging from your mamma's tit, and the only worry in your life is you get clean diapers on time. You trample with your tones on mamma's keyboard, causing random sequences to appear. When you get a few month older GOD WILLING you will start on power drinks and learn to understand the symbols on those keys actually have a meaning, and GOD WILLING type some understandable text. GOD WILLING

WTF are you on about, boy?

I WORK for a living, you retarded piece of s*it.

This from the Usenet s.e.d perpetual child "JanPan".

You need a lobotomy, boy. You act like you've already had one.

"understandable text"?

Is that what you call what the trash you posted was?

YOU are a GOD DAMNED idiot!

LAMEST TROLL - EVER.

I thought it was JF who started going on about weenies whenever his rebuttals proved inadequate!

David Lesher wrote in news:jtdfcp$kd6$ snipped-for-privacy@reader1.panix.com:

those are NOT "ground planes",they are planar antennas. I see them all over on poles next to highways,to interrogate and read the E-ZPass/SunPass transponders the toll roads use,the paper said they are for measuring traffic flow at intersections. they too are in pairs. probably one Rx,one Tx.

Jim Thompson wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Back in 1971-74,I was stationed right outside of Boston,Hanscom Field,now Hanscom AFB. It beat going to Nam,or Turkey like where my Lowry AFB tech school roommate ended up. Then after a year and a half at Hanscom,I got sent to Logan Intl. to pick up a new guy,and it turned out to be my old Lowry roomie! small world.

but Boston itself was a PITA.

You're no different than Slowman, Jan, or EEyore. Just another Europeon hater.

BTW, it's JT but I didn't expect you to get that right, either.