What is your profession. For ATS members!

Originally posted by whaaadue to the Bush administration creating $4.00 petrol and making my marketing stratagy unmanageable; kicking the profit out of my pieces.



[edit on 29-12-2009 by whaaa]

Originally posted by wookiee


I love it! Another reason to blame Bush! When gas was under $2.00 did you go back in business? When it goes over $4 under BO will you still blame Bush? Or does it just make you feeeel better to blame someone else?

Originally posted by peacejet
reply to post by wookiee

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I saw a program on discovery channel some time back. In that, they showed the linemen working on high voltage, 'bonding" themselves to the line, by connecting a rod to the live lines and allowing current to flow through them(without groud connection of course). Is it true that the human body reverberates and produces a hum during the current flow through the body?

I am far from an expert on the theory but I will try and put it in “basic” layman’s /lineman’s  terms. Energized /Bare-hand is an example of a Faraday Cage. The metal impregnated suit is what sets this up. This like a bird landing on a wire. We know that they do not land on high voltages such as this because of the increased magnetic field. The wand is what is used to connect the charging current. On a ladder, the charging current is just the mass from the body of the lineman. In a bucket it is everything in the bucket; with helicopter; it is everything including the helicopter.

An external electrical field causes the charges to rearrange, which cancels the field inside.
A Faraday cage is best understood as an approximation to an ideal hollow conductor. Externally applied electric fields produce forces on the charge carriers (usually electrons) within the conductor, generating a current that rearranges the charges. Once the charges have rearranged so as to cancel the applied field inside, the current stops.
There is not a path for current to flow, there is a only a charging current. You are in the field at the same potential of the conductor. There is a hum but I do not know the source. The hum is more of a slight roar. It sounds like a freight train in the background. With the suit and gloves on; there is no discomfort. If you take the gloves off and reach away from your body; you can feel an increasing “tingle”. You are reaching toward the edges of the cage that was set up.
The explanations that documentaries use may sound scientific and factual on most things but are typically not.