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Help lessen my personal ignorance:

What is it about their outfits that causes this? Or are their outfits purely protection?
What is the difference between these power lines and those of the average american neighborhood that will allow a squirrel to run along one safely, (assuming one could not run along these and die)?

It's all about potential difference. Electricity will normally arc about 1cm for every 1000 volts of potential difference (ground vs live). Usually the lines running to your house would be 220v (or 110v in some places), and insulated, so the critter is quite safe as long as he doesn't actually chew through the wire while standing somewhere grounded.

High voltage transmission lines are quite safe for birds to sit on, because although they might be 10,000v or 100,000 volts potential with respect to the ground, the bird is sitting on the wire and has a potential of 0 with respect to that wire.

So, back to these guys. Their outfits are protective, containing conductive material so the electricity will flow around and not through the worker, but as you can hear they were still getting quite hot. Usually line inspectors would have a conductive hook to throw over the line to bring their bucket up to the same potential as the line, the fact that they haven't done so is most likely precisely so they can make these arcs.

From the length of the arcs, perhaps this was a 33kV transmission line? I doubt they would have been quite so cavalier with a 110kV one.

And now, young Skywalker: you will die.

hahah Hastur, that's exactly what I was thinking

If Tesla could see them now he may wonder aloud as to why mankind hasn't "switched" the hardware for the transmission of electricity....We'd have to explain to Nicola that unfortunately for mankind, the same cunts drunk on power and control are still alive and kicking.

Sounds like me on the couch after eating a whole bag of beef jerky.

Faraday suits.

Sorry, could you explain what you mean here? What would Tesla want them to switch?

Above-ground, high-power transmission of energy with arcane technology, not unlike the switch from DC to AC that angered Edison and caused JP Morgan to ambush Westinghouse and cinch-up power for the indefinite future.
Timber and mining concerns wield massive influence in our retarded governments' around the world-Influential assholes whose empires stand to gain from the perpetuity of such back-ass-ward means of providing energy to paying customers work tirelessly to maintain their monopolies.

Anyone who naively believes that the technology does not exist NOW to eliminate the world's network of above-ground aluminum and steel might want to re-visit their knowledge extant of history, and that of the cunts who feed us shit and keep us in the dark.

Correct me if I am misinterpreting what you are saying here, but in a nutshell, you believe that there is a better technology for mass distribution of energy that is being suppressed by current world leaders?

You understand how crazy that sounds?

I think the success of the Tesla electric vehicle company is proof that where current technology is lagging, there are now wealthy people who are willing to push for technological leaps, and profit nicely by doing so.

If there was a revolutionary power distribution technology, somebody would be building it and profiting by it.

"If there was a revolutionary power distribution technology, somebody would be building it and profiting by it."

Not necessarily-Yours is a naivete shared by scores of peeps dosed continuously by propaganda while a proper gander would serve much better-

They couldn't make any $$ off a conventional carburetor retrofit that netted100 miles to the gallon back in 76' either, the patents were bought and suppressed. Countless other similar stories lend credence to the notion that knowledge is power. Profit isn't everything, but the consolidation of power in the hands of a few IS.

Why do you imagine we still use copper hard lines for internet when fiber is cheaper and more efficient? Follow the power.

The Tesla motors example is weak as they have only now been able to compete with oil-Had the R&D been forward-thinking with a view to conservation and efficiency in 1950, we'd already see a transition in the industry making a difference.

We don't need to transmit power with overhead lines, but the infrastructure and the power concerns are controlled by those who own them-Combine that with governments available to the highest bidder and you have a technomonopolistic cabal of behind-the-scenes power-mongers.

Oh, and FUCK J.P. Morgan and his entire clan, may their genetic material be scattered over the earth as fertilizer during some future purge....