I would love to understand why HV lines don’t carry the voltage required to break the resistance to earth in very heavy rain. Is rain water pure water with low conductivity? Or are the air gaps too much for the voltage?
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Relatively pure water such as rain is actually a rather poor conductor. The space between raindrops and their conductivity means that the voltages that transmission lines carry are unlikely to arc to ground through the rain.
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