From: Renaud OLGIATI
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 07:08:51 PDT
My mailbox was recently graced by a missive from Cougarjack@aol.com :
> No power company that I am aware of has been able to use the earth itself
> as a circuit leg, since the earth's resistance is way too high for
> efficient transmission. The Power guys could not afford the losses that
> would be involved.
Come to Paraguay and have a look at rural MT distribution circuits:
One wire on the roadside poles, a transformer on the pole where the
customer's LT spur (2 wires) comes off, other side of the transformer being
wired to an earth copper stake in the ground.
Inefficient ? Maybe, but as the country owns one half of the two biggest
hydro dams in the world (Itaipu and Yacyreta) and uses only about 5% of the
current produced.....
You are aware now ;-3)
Cheers,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River.
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