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On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:28:07 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>>> Off Air :)
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>>Underwater? ;-)
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> Possibly the Navy Lark.
I think that's next after we finish The Goon Show. Just started series 7.
Jim
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On 6 Sep 2009 12:36:14 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>I think that's next after we finish The Goon Show. Just started series 7.
I'm listening to "Hamish And Dougal" again. I just set up my wife's internet
radio and it's connected to my laptop.
--
Regards
Stephen
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On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:04:50 +0100, Stephen wrote:
> On 6 Sep 2009 12:36:14 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
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>>I think that's next after we finish The Goon Show. Just started series
>>7.
>
> I'm listening to "Hamish And Dougal" again. I just set up my wife's
> internet radio and it's connected to my laptop.
Cool, we might add that back to the list after Navy Lark.
Jim
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On 6 Sep 2009 16:18:58 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:04:50 +0100, Stephen wrote:
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>> On 6 Sep 2009 12:36:14 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
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>>>I think that's next after we finish The Goon Show. Just started series
>>>7.
>>
>> I'm listening to "Hamish And Dougal" again. I just set up my wife's
>> internet radio and it's connected to my laptop.
>
>Cool, we might add that back to the list after Navy Lark.
>
The Navy Lark goes back quite a few years and there is a lot of it, some of the
quality is very poor. :(
I've got quite a few recordings if you need any.
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Stephen
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On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:44:04 +0100, Stephen wrote:
> On 6 Sep 2009 16:18:58 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
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>>On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:04:50 +0100, Stephen wrote:
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>>> On 6 Sep 2009 12:36:14 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>>>
>>>>I think that's next after we finish The Goon Show. Just started
>>>>series 7.
>>>
>>> I'm listening to "Hamish And Dougal" again. I just set up my wife's
>>> internet radio and it's connected to my laptop.
>>
>>Cool, we might add that back to the list after Navy Lark.
>>
>>
> The Navy Lark goes back quite a few years and there is a lot of it, some
> of the quality is very poor. :(
> I've got quite a few recordings if you need any.
Thanks for that - will let you know if I find myself missing any. :-)
Jim
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> But trees encroach on power lines all the time. I can look out my window
> and see half a dozen...
You have one of these outside your window? o_O
http://www.idonohoe.com/biking/gallery/pylon.jpg
If you mean the low voltage cables on wooden poles that are much closer to
the ground, then maybe those ones are insulated (we don't have many of those
here, the cables mostly go underground once they come off the pylons)? They
don't have to go long distances so the extra cost is probably justified by
the high risk of stuff hitting them.
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> You win the thread! There's less resistance along the current path (the
> wire) then the sheet of water.
Ermm, I don't know if you're joking here or not. But for the sake of
everyone else, this is not how electricity works! It does NOT "choose" the
lowest resistance path and ignore anything else, it follows Ohm's law (V=IR)
for every part of the circuit.
Because the voltage is so high on power lines, even a HUGE resistance (like
a human body, or a wet tree, for example) will make a pretty large current
flow, certainly enough to kill you or catch the tree on fire.
As a quick calculation, put a 10 MOhm resistance (millions of times higher
than the resistance along the current path) between a 400 kV power line and
ground, whilst the *current* through the resistor will "only" be 40 mA, the
power that needs to be dissipated by the resistor will be 16 kW, enough to
fry most things pretty quickly :-)
Also, I suspect the electricity company would be *really* interested if they
were losing 16 kW at each connection point along their power line!
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> Does voltage even matter in this case? Isn't amperage the important bit?
The current (amperage) in the cable is pretty meaningless if we're talking
about accidents when someone or something touches the cable. Whether there
is zero or ten million amps going along the cable, when you (or some object)
touches it, it is the voltage of the cable that will determine the severity
of the outcome.
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scott wrote:
>> But trees encroach on power lines all the time. I can look out my
>> window and see half a dozen...
>
> You have one of these outside your window? o_O
>
> http://www.idonohoe.com/biking/gallery/pylon.jpg
Ah, no, although I know of some within a few miles of here.
No, I mean the stuff that runs down your street and branches to every house.
> If you mean the low voltage cables on wooden poles that are much closer
> to the ground, then maybe those ones are insulated (we don't have many
> of those here, the cables mostly go underground once they come off the
> pylons)? They don't have to go long distances so the extra cost is
> probably justified by the high risk of stuff hitting them.
OK, so the local stuff is probably insulated due to risk, while the high
voltage stuff used for long-distance transmission is left uninsulated.
That makes sense.
...Chambers
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> No, I mean the stuff that runs down your street and branches to every
> house.
Ah ok, yes that would need to be insulated! I don't think we have cables
like that anywhere here (or if we do it's really uncommon), it's all
underground apart from the high voltage long distance stuff. I remember
when I visited Japan they had crazy amounts of cable in the air, with
transformers at the top of poles etc, I'd never seen anything like it:
http://img1.photographersdirect.com/img/11943/wm/pd540134.jpg
I guess once you start putting power and telephone above-ground, things get
very messy very quickly in heavily populated areas. Underground I suspect
you have the same, it's just hidden from sight!
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