Nonsense. The vast majority of the energy is going straight to earth via the neutral side which is earthed. It's a low impedance path and even if the lightning bolt initially contacted the hot side it will instantly arc over to the neutral with most of the energy going to earth via that route because both ends of that conductor are earthed. The conductors can't support a voltage more than a few thousand volts between them without arcing over. And again, that's a big reason for earthing one side of the service.
Previously you denied you had codes, but again, that's not the point. If you can do as you please over there, just go ahead and remove the earthing from your home and stop bitching about it. And yes, the govt checks on building codes here even if you do it yourself. The lives you jeopardize are not necessarily just your own and if you violate codes regarding building height, setbacks, fences, it affects other property owners.
The difference is that with your scheme, you know it doesn?t matter if you touch a bare active line, because its floating. If one of the heater elements has silently earthed one side of the supply, in any of the houses supplied from that 11KV to 240V street transformer, if you touch that active then, that can kill you.
With the current approach, the failure of the heating element will trip the RCD so you have replace the heating element and cant ignore it.
Nope, we're discussing your proposal that mains supplys should be floating.
Lets say the cable lost the neutral under the road between me and the substation. How would the current get back to the transformer? There's no reason to have the neutral shoved into the ground on my side of the road.
Doesn't that cause voltages in the ground around the earth stake?
But plenty always earthed, most obviously with concrete floors and walls and metal plumbing and steel frames.
Nope, there is always plenty of earths around.
But if you do that, any heating element that fails will silently eliminate the floating supply and the next time someone gets between the active or return and earth, they can get electrocuted.
They're not criminals, they're just not pansies like you that play safe all the time.
I don't care about 1 in a million chances. You however fall for media hype and get upset about a few people in several million. More people probably die by falling down stairs. Would you like to ban all stairs?
Of course because you see it about once a year, that's the typical rate around the world. And for the record, I think you're alleged observation is BS.
"Weather latest: 'Mother of all thunderstorms' hits Britain with 20,000 lightning strikes BRITAIN was struck by lightning between 20,000 times as the "mother of all thunderstorms" lashed large parts of the country throughout the night. "
Then don't live in dangerous places. I bought this house instead of another because it wasn't next to a river. M'colleague bought one pretty much next to the one I refused. His garden floods every couple of months. What a fool.
Can you find out how many of those hit my town? I'll help you out, it was zero.
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