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From: "Jim"
Date: Monday, September 10, 2007 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: Wind turbine 1000 feet away and on mountain top possible?
From: "Jim"
Date: Monday, September 10, 2007 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: Wind turbine 1000 feet away and on mountain top possible?
"Eeyore"
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>
> RadicalModerate wrote:
>
>> And as for "ground wire" I don't know what they do in Blighty for
>> above-ground electric utility cables but here in the . there is a
>> bare wire above all the others which is used to take the brunt of any
>> lightning strike.
>
> A 'wire' will NEVER take the brunt of a lightning strike. It might take
> the
> 'edge' off it but no more. The kilo-amps of current and the fast rise
> times
> means it doesn't behave like ordinary line frequency AC.
>
> Graham
>
I've seen Fulgurites (sp?) after storms. A wire would vaporize....
