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Warp wrote:
> There's no "limited current". If the voltage difference is 40 kilovolts,
> the current will be almost 200 times larger than of the voltage difference
> is 230 volts.
Static electric shocks regularly run into the kilovolt range. So why
don't they kill people? I assure you, if you hang somebody between a
pair of 40 kilovolt overhead power lines, their body will be reduced to
ash - possibly explosively.
The difference is that a static shock lasts for an infintesimal fraction
of a second. That's how long it takes the two charges to neutralise each
other. If you touch a power line, however, there's a giant generator
replacing the charge as fast as you can neutralise it, causing a
_continuous_ current flow.
It's current that kills you, not potential difference or anything else.
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