We've had squirrel problems throughout this winter and I'm worried about a fire in the attic because of them living there.We're thinking about putting a smoke alarm in the hallway of our house. Would it detect a fire in the attic? We live in a one floor house. The only other floor is the attic.Also, is it safe to put a smoke alarm or a heat detector in the attic?
You bet ya but you need to be aware that Hitlary has never lead anything she can't even control her pervert hubby Bill.
Go to the hardware store and get some Goo Gone. Might also be in the hardware department of the grocery store, Wal-Mart, Target, etc.
The answers below include mostly correct information. To look at this in more detail, a typical lightning current pulse is somewhat like: Current - 50,000 Amperes Voltage - 5,000,000 Volts Pulse Time - 0.0005s This pulse provides approximately the following: Power in Watts - 125 Giga Watts (125,000,000,000W) Energy in Joules - 62.5 Million Sound like a HUGE amount of energy! However if we look at an energy efficient house or moderate apartment, the load is about 1000 Watts. So all of the lightning energy would last for 62,500 seconds. This is only 17 hours.. So the problems are: the enormous difficulty and cost in making 5MV capacitors, the enormous challenge of converting 5MV to usable 60 or 50 Hz power. The difficulty in getting the lightning to strike predictably to charge this system. And the limited amount of energy available for a continous load, as opposed to the huge, but short pulse of power in lightning. You might think that a practical application would probably tend be to capture lightning on existing overhead High Voltage DC power transmission lines, since they are already operating at extremely high voltage. However the number of strikes would be low enough to not add any appreciable energy. Especially considering the difficulty with dealing with such unusually huge power and voltage spikes. Lightning is considered a problem for these lines, that needs to be protected against, not a source of free energy. Lightnign
