An aside: While touring Canada in '98, I saw one-wire electrical power distribution wire along the highway. At a nearby store I asked about it - clerk phoned her husband, who worked for power co. He confirmed only one wire was used - conductivity was so good in that area they used ground for the return path.
I didn't think about checking the earthworms. I later learned a part of Australia or New Zealand also did this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_wire_earth_return http://www.saskpower.com/pm/rural_elect/rural_elect2.shtml Strange but true! Jerry W4UK At 10:37 PM 2/3/2007, you wrote: >if power flowed through earth I would find a way to excite a >transformer. Imagine a ground rod at each end of your yard with 100 >amps flowing between them at say a couple volts. > Earthworms dancing > >kd5nwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The article starts with a fallacy. Electrical power at > least in the >US does not conduct electrical power through the Earth connection. In >your outlet there is "hot" "return" , and "Earth" ground. The power >flows from "hot" to "return" the Earth is for safety and is connected >to the "return" at the entrance to the building, but no power is >supposed to flow through the "earth" connection. The safety outlets >for use in bathrooms and kitchens, and places like hospital work by >detecting a current imbalance between hot and return if they are >different it means there is a flow of current that is not going >through the proper path such as a person touching a hot wire while >grounded causing a trip on the breaker to prevent someone's death. > >High transmission voltages are 3 phase generally in either "Delta" or >"Y" configuration but again the "Earth" is not for conducting power. > >At 08:18 PM 2/3/2007, Daniel Jackson wrote: > >--- In [email protected], "i2phd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Frank" <transistortoaster@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Could somebody define the term "monochromatic signal"? I never heard > > > > any color terms outside the context of a stochastic process. > > > > > > > > > > A monochromatic light is a light composed of just one pure color > > > (colour),i.e. a single frequency only. So, for analogy, a > > > monochromatic signal, even if at a frequency much inferior to that of > > > the light, is a signal whose spectrum is just a line, in other words a > > > pure sinusoid. > > > > > > 73 Alberto I2PHD > > > > > > >Ok! This reminds me of the old days of my astronomy, reading the > >theories. I could write my view of the universe here about how space > >time works based on the Special and General Theory of Relativity. > > From gravity to black holes. But I won't since thats way off topic. > > > >Everything as best as I know reduces down into an electromagnetic > >universe. Where gravity is really not at all a field force of > >attraction but the inertial surface acceleration of the earth's > >surface expanding forth into space~time. And so I couldn't write that > >here. > > > >http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/The_University_Of_Tesla/message/13 > > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > >Cecil Bayona >KD5NWA >www.qrpradio.com
