Re: steam power

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Original poster: "tesla by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <tesla-at-cyberverse-dot-com>

The explanation is easy, gentlemen.

The pump for those socal edison trucks pulse the water. If you are close
enough, you can easily see it. I asked the crew once, and they confirmed it.
BTW, the crew thought that Edison was the inventor of the power grid. :(

Gene lambert
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Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: steam power


> Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
<evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
>
> >
> > << Lookout for strokes coming back down the spray...
> >     Firemen working near energized HV lines use explicit grounds
> >     on the nozzles to reduce risks.
> >
> >     best
> >     dwp
> >   >>
> >
> > Hi Dave P, all,
> >
> > I don't mean to start an argument, but I have been a firefighter as my
"real"
> > profession for the past 12+ years here in my hometown (Memphis), and
I've
> > never heard of "grounding" a nozzle to reduce the risk of electrocution,
when
> > fighting a fire near energized electrical equipment.
>
> > >>*It's a safety issue and people are using this technique with
coils... -
> > Terry<<
>
> Comment:
>
> Don't know about the fire fighters, who have enough safety problems
> without worrying about electrocution, but Southern California Edison
> (and presumably all other utilities) routinely wash off the insulators
> on HV transmission lines; I've often seen it done and have been told
> (electric power transmission class in grad school) it's done with the
> line hot.  Nozzle and nozzle holder are on top of a cherry picker
> mounted on a truck. and brought up to perhaps from the insulators.  In
> at least once case the insulators being washed were on the 220 kV HV
> line which, as far as I know, was the only source of power for the area
> I was in, which would tend to verify that the lines were not disabled.
> Someone here must have better knowledge as to what is really done.
>
> Ed
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