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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (177130)4/7/2009 4:21:44 PM
From: ManyMoose  Respond to of 225578
 
I don't claim to be an expert, but that's not the way it was depicted in the graphics in the show I saw. My neighbor retired from Tacoma Power and Light, and he said something like equalizing the potential, but I thought the direction was from the line to the helicopter.

When I was in Juneau there were stories periodically about eagles frying themselves by sitting on the line and touching each other or something else.