I've just been discussing a radio site with a 50m tower with the civil engineer on my team.
He has just returned from a site visit where the supplier is starting tower footings 9 metres from a energised 33KV overhead power line! He issued an immediate stop-work. The supplier is responsible for site selection, acquisition and all paperwork.
I'm trying to comprehend the sheer fuckwittery and lack of any intelligence from the supplier selecting this location.
„Phone & Beverages“ (2009)
Photo Dietmar Bachmann
Koh Samui
I don’t know if it’s still there today. In the age of mobile phones, the owner of the drinks stand next to it has probably also had to rethink his business.
Alpena County Central Dispatch: There is an extreme ice emergency. If there is a down line in your yard that is not actively on fire or arcing stay away and contact your power company. Only call 911 if there is flames/arcing/smoke etc. Source: 202100,MI Alpena County Central Dispatch
hoover dam
1957
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Power Line (2025)
Photo Dietmar Bachmann
What does a power line mean to you? What do you think or feel when you see one? What if there were no power lines? Tell me your honest thoughts in the comments.
Geek.
As I was going through my photos the other night, looking for the shot of the 765kv powerlines in Upstate New York, I stumbled across this photo. I had forgotten about it but once I saw it I remembered it.
Taken during COVID, when Earl and I were out for many drives in the Illinois countryside to the southwest of Chicago, I stood under this 345kv line. ComEd in Illinois seems to use what I call the “Cat Ears” towers, as the supports for the Earth Wire to assist with lightning control out on the prairie.
I was always a fan of the prairies to the west of busy Chicago. I found such beauty out in all that open space.
Especially if there were interesting powerlines marching across the cornfields here and there.
southern new hampshire
september 1959
linemen
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