Can electricity conduct through a fine spray of water?

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

They had to name it after somebody, rather than using words that actually mean something.

[micky]

Maybe. I don't think I could have been able to tell even if I'd replayed it and looked for that. I did replay it once.

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

IIRC, that unit (mho) is now supposed to be called the Siemens. I like mho better.

[Mark Lloyd]

When I was little, I accidentally sprayed a 120V outlet and felt a little tingle. It wasn't nearly enough to hurt.

[TimR]

Where you never find a dead crow is in the road, even though they're constantly out there in traffic eating road kill.

The explanation is simple. There's always a couple up in a nearby tree, yelling "Car! Car!"

[Carlos E.R.]

Ok.

Then you are talking of those transformers typical in the USA sitting on the top of a pole, serving a few houses. I was thinking of the transformers here, and I could not imagine how it could happen :-D

[Clare Snyder]

I remember when we had to change all our electric motors - and get a new clock - I believe it was when we lived between Poole and Milverton back in 1954 - strange how I remeber things like that - happening when I was only 2 years old (along with Hurricane Hazel). Dad still had that little red clock up untill a few years before he died - he threw it away before I had a chance to "salvage" it - - -

[Clare Snyder]

I think they decommissioned Niagara One in 1999

[hubops]

1999 was when a long-term international water rights treaty was to expire. One of the old Niagara plants on the Canadian side was owned by an American company who would usually just sell their water allotment to the more efficient Ontario Hydro generation. But the plant had to remain operational to keep the water rights.

John T.

[Jim Joyce]

Georg Simon Ohm, James Watt, Alessandro Volta, André-Marie Ampère, and a host of others look disapprovingly in your direction. Heinrich Hertz just smiled, unable to defend himself, because he died in 1894.

[hubops]

It's now a Niagara Parks attraction :

John T.

[Commander Kinsey]

With conductive rainwater, not the purified stuff they were using, evaporation?

[Commander Kinsey]

I meant normal water, not purified. And that's not a fine mist, that's continuous water.

[Commander Kinsey]

And yet the fire brigade wouldn't put out my neighbour's 240V roof fire.

[Commander Kinsey]

How is that justice? I hope the kitten died.

[Commander Kinsey]

Presumably it was continuous water, not a mist like I'm spraying the parrot with.

Do you guys have 120V because you still haven't invented outlets with switches on them, or plugs with sleeved pins, so every time you put a plug in our out, you've got live pins right next to your fingers?

[Commander Kinsey]

I would never call a parrot obnoxious. I guess Blue Fronted Amazons can be loud, but so can seagulls.

[John Larkin]

This is the Wild West. Life is cheap.

120 barely tickles anyhow.

[John Larkin]

Quincy sure is.

[Commander Kinsey]

Surely when the mist lands, it forms a film of water on all surfaces, making everything live.