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If I remember correctly, electricity will jump through the air at 20 volts per millimeter or thousandth of a meter. If a lightning bolt is 20 kilometers in length you can do the math. It's a lot by the time it strikes a tree...

Actually a lot more to get a spark to jump the gap - just about 75,000 volts per inch (3000 volts per milimeter). You can sustain an arc with less once you have ionized the air in the gap, but it takes a bunch to get it going.

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Posted: Jul 30, 2023 - 11:41am

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Posted: Jul 18, 2023 - 7:26pm

Manbird wrote:

oldviolin wrote:

No, YOU"RE a lot plus striking trees makes me noxixous and it's cruel. (I'm telling bill)

Tell him you big baby. I don't care. You can even tell William.

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Posted: Jul 18, 2023 - 4:50pm
you should get friendly with your Yamanaka factors the sooner the better

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Posted: Jul 13, 2023 - 3:54pm
Manbird wrote: Aye... you're a good lad. But you SHOULD be wearing at least 3 of them. As is what I tell all my customers. Not when it's a hundred and fuck!

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Posted: Jul 13, 2023 - 3:49pm
Red_Dragon wrote: I'm wearing a Manbirdio tee shirt and you're not. Aye... you're a good lad. But you SHOULD be wearing at least 3 of them. As is what I tell all my customers.

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Posted: Jul 13, 2023 - 3:42pm
Manbird wrote: No, YOU"RE a lot plus striking trees makes me noxixous and it's cruel. (I'm telling bill) I'm wearing a Manbirdio tee shirt and you're not.

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Posted: Jul 13, 2023 - 3:21pm
oldviolin wrote: If I remember correctly, electricity will jump through the air at 20 volts per millimeter or thousandth of a meter. If a lightning bolt is 20 kilometers in length you can do the math. It's a lot by the time it strikes a tree... No, YOU"RE a lot plus striking trees makes me noxixous and it's cruel. (I'm telling bill)

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Posted: Jul 13, 2023 - 5:19am
Steve wrote: The minimum distance between a backhoe (or other equipment) and a 50 kV power line shall be 10 feet, plus 4 inches for each additional 1 kV. If I remember correctly, electricity will jump through the air at 20 volts per millimeter or thousandth of a meter. If a lightning bolt is 20 kilometers in length you can do the math. It's a lot by the time it strikes a tree...

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Posted: Jul 12, 2023 - 4:49pm

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Posted: Jun 24, 2023 - 10:40am
The minimum distance between a backhoe (or other equipment) and a 50 kV power line shall be 10 feet, plus 4 inches for each additional 1 kV.

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Posted: May 27, 2023 - 7:24am

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Posted: May 21, 2023 - 4:50pm
ScottFromWyoming wrote: That does explain a few things. Especially the British insistence that you only make tea by filling a kettle with cold water, making it seem as if the starting temperature makes some difference in the flavor. I always fill my kettle with cold water because i read there's critters in the warm water pipes.

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Posted: May 21, 2023 - 3:34pm
ScottFromWyoming wrote: That does explain a few things. Especially the British insistence that you only make tea by filling a kettle with cold water, making it seem as if the starting temperature makes some difference in the flavor. true!

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Posted: May 15, 2023 - 12:56pm
miamizsun wrote: That does explain a few things. Especially the British insistence that you only make tea by filling a kettle with cold water, making it seem as if the starting temperature makes some difference in the flavor.

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Posted: May 15, 2023 - 7:22am

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Posted: Mar 10, 2023 - 1:03pm
miamizsun wrote: i say cutts it out! (big screen it for the full effect)

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Posted: Mar 10, 2023 - 12:33pm

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Posted: Oct 19, 2022 - 5:57am

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