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ziml77
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Why is electricity so hard to understand? (1989)
THAT is what high tension wires are?! I've always seen it in the context of the massive transmission lines, so I thought it meant that the wires themselves were under high tension from their weight.
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Similarly, I thought it meant because they were stretched to high tension to avoid sagging as much.
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