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Power Company Sends Fire-Spewing Drone to Burn Trash Off High-Voltage Wires (with great pictures)
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Posted on 02/17/2017 7:16:08 PM PST by Strac6

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To: Salamander

Copper or steel do not burn well.

Often they are not insulated because of the weight of the large amount of insulation that would be needed, instillation would not weather well, and the physical separation provides the electric isolation needed between the lines.


21 posted on 02/17/2017 8:59:59 PM PST by Strac6 ("We sleep safe in our beds only because rough men stand ready to visit violence on the enemy.")
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could solve our hanging gym-shoe problem we have around Chicagoland.

Never understood why people feel compelled to throw their old tennis shoes up on wires.


22 posted on 02/18/2017 3:39:40 AM PST by Bubba Gump Shrimp (A Liberal is someone who cannot accept that there is a Law of Unintended Consequences)
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Shoes over a wire? You can buy your drugs right under here.


23 posted on 02/18/2017 8:14:41 AM PST by Strac6 ("We sleep safe in our beds only because rough men stand ready to visit violence on the enemy.")
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