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saarnok · 8/22/2025, 1:06:53 AM · permalink

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russhoffman · 8/27/2025, 2:51:02 AM · permalink

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saarnok · 8/27/2025, 10:40:08 AM · permalink

You don't understand.  
  
"insulated", as in not grounded. On insulators. Electric fencing is not covered with an insulative sheathing any more than transmission lines are. You know what happens if the line is cut a few miles from your house, or a hundred, or a thousand? You lose power. Do you really think what you're saying could be true and yet the hundreds of thousands of linemen who've been handling the lines wouldn't notice it over the last hundred years and tell us about it?  
  
I've actually rebuilt a short piece of transmission line, something like two miles. Don't you think I'd start to notice the electric charge building up as we started to get more and more line hung on the poles?  
  
Think about it. In order for your idea to work it would have to capture enough electricity to power your house in the distance between your house and your neighbor's house. Also, what function does the transformer have in this scenario? Why is the power at your home 60hz AC while power in Britain 50hz AC?  
  
How does the system work where you have 120v while industrial systems have thousands of volts? How does the factory up the road suddenly pulling ten thousand amps not cause you to brown-out?  
  
Also, not all power systems even were AC power. Old power systems in the US and other places used DC power with the last system finally shutting down less than twenty years ago. So, are we supposed to believe you can catch AC 60hz in some places, AC 50hz in others and DC power in yet others? No. There's some voltage differential up there in the air. No doubt. Not enough to power anything of consequence and not particularly stable.  
  
[Last DC power system switches to AC](https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/off-goes-the-power-current-started-by-thomas-edison/)  
  
I get that imagining conspiracies is fun. I do it all the time. And, while there may or may not be any number of truly mysterious things about our power grid which look sort of weird in some certain light, this really isn't one of them.

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morpheus33 · 8/29/2025, 11:32:16 PM · permalink

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russhoffman · 9/8/2025, 9:38:26 AM · permalink

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