capacitance on underground powerlines

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com>

Hey all, 

I've been thinking about the underground utility HV power 
lines that I've seen going down a pole in a conduit into the 
ground. I'm aware that if you run a HV conductor with an 
oppositely charged outer jacket that there will be a certain 
amount of capacitance that will be imposed upon the "hot" 
HV conductor,which is directly proportionate to the length of 
the run of  the wire. I realize that this isn't exactly on-topic, but 
this principle would apply to my coil setup, since I run my HV 
transmission line from my pole pig to my coil assembly 
via heavily insulated wire ran thru a grounded flexible Ro- 
mex conduit to protect the transmission line from streamer 
strikes. Anyway, as a non-engineer, i was just curious about 
this issue. 

David Rieben