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From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.geo.meteorology,misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: using the bathroom during lightning storm
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Date: 26 May 91 06:58:20 GMT
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In article <13568@dog.ee.lbl.gov> jtchew@csa2.lbl.gov writes:
>>Correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't the metal plumbing in your
>>house grounded?  

>Remember that at a few tens of kiloamperes, fractional-ohm differences
>get really significant.

Or, put another way, at a few tens of kiloamperes, there ain't no such
thing as a good ground.  (Well, perhaps a superconductor a few square
feet in cross-section... ;-)
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