Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!convex!mic!letni!utacfd!merch!rwsys!kf5iw!k5qwb!lrk From: lrk@k5qwb.lonestar.org (Lyn R. Kennedy) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Gold saves energy. Keywords: gold Message-ID: Date: 8 Jun 91 17:18:26 GMT References: <3298@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> Organization: Radio Amateur k5qwb Lines: 24 wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne L. Smith) writes: > In article <7Fs532w164w@spocom.guild.org> luns@spocom.guild.org (Luns Tee) wr > > Anyway, Aluminum is used instead of copper in power lines because its > >cheaper. Ontario Hydro says that they've had problems with people > >stealing copper power lines. =:-O > > I've heard stories of people tying copper lines to the back of their pick-ups > and driving down country roads, ripping the lines off the poles. We had one in Dallas where two guys climbed a power pole to steal the wire. The enterprise failed when they got to the 7200 volt stuf. One of my friends describes this as 'self policing'. Took a while to recover the bodies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- lrk@k5qwb.lonestar.org 73, utacfd.utarl.edu!letni!kf5iw!k5qwb!lrk Lyn Kennedy K5QWB @ N5LDD.#NTX.TX.US.NA P.O. Box 5133, Ovilla, TX, USA 75154 -------------- "We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo --------------