Can electricity conduct through a fine spray of water?

[micky]

Yes, but the water is insulated.

(That's why my 8th grade electrical shop teacher said why birds on powerlines don't get electrocuted.)

[Jasen Betts]

They are shaped like umbrellas so that they stay partly dry when it rains.

[Jasen Betts]

They use deionised water

[Carlos E.R.]

How does that happen? Strong magnetic field? Touching two cables?

[Carlos E.R.]

If you watch the video, you will see that is not the case.

[Rod Speed]

Nope

Two terminals.

[Rod Speed]

The video isnt RAIN

[Carlos E.R.]

Precisely.

[charles]

Parent on one cable feeding chicks on another

[Commander Kinsey]

Cool, just wondering since I was spraying mist on a parrot and he was rather close to a light socket.

[John Larkin]

Squirrels occasionally span an insulator and take out local power.

[John Larkin]

Our parrot Quincy loves to be sprayed too. There's no hazard from a nearby outlet.

San Francisco, after very much debate, has just declared the parrot to be The Official City Animal. We have giant, noisy, obnoxious flocks of wild parrots here. There's a nice movie about that.

[John Larkin]

The difference should be audible. Transformers hum and corona hisses.

[jon]

My 150kV x 0.047uF Capacitor discharges quickly on a damp foggy morning.

[John Larkin]

How do you make 150 KV? Sounds like fun.

[jon]

Multiple doublers.

[John Larkin]

My idea was to get a lot of caps and tape them in series, to a PVC pipe.

Charge the top one, then the next one, and so on.

[Rod Speed]

Yep, and you never hear major substations hiss in hot humid weather.

[John S]

I think they just turn power off for that circuit. They have redundant paths to keep power to customers.

[John S]

Really? 200umho is 5000 ohms. So, at 400kV, the dirt (or whatever) would dissipate 32,000,000 (32E6) 32 million Watts. I kinda don't think something is not quite right.