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Large towers might carry 500 Kv or 500,000 volts

Shorter wooden towers might carry 115 Kv to 230 Kv


Wide corridor of land is needed for power lines leaving WA Parrish power plant en route to
Houston and surrounding areas
This group of wires is headed to Houston/ Harris Co and Fort Bend Co on a wide corridor of land.
Other towers leave power plant and go different directions.
Use Google Earth to view local power station, and trace wires to local sub-stations. And then
follow wires into each town and neighborhood, and to more substations to end user
Electricity is a wave that travels at the speed of light (approximately)
If AC electricity is not consumed at moment when available, it is wasted. Unless the AC is
converted to DC and stored in a battery.
Cell phone and laptop batteries store AC power.
Electric water heater is indirect way to store electric power. Water stays hot in tank for many
hours after power is off.

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