Lutsk Compact Overhead Powerline is a 10 kV powerline connecting a power station with a nearby substation. But it is no normal 10 kV overhead line, as it uses bundles of 6 wires for each... »

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Originally created to carry electricity across the Oka River, the Shukhov Tower was built in a strong hyperboloid form, allowing it to remain intact even after it outlasted its use at the collapse... »

Electrical Oddities | Edited by atimian and Dylan

After German Reunifaction it was planned to build a 380 kV interconnection between Krümmel Nuclear Power Station, in former West Germany, to Görries substation in former East Germany via... »

Electrical Oddities | Edited by Alpha

In 1986 the movie Short Circuit came out and hit number one at the box office. It was the story of lovable robot Johnny 5, and perhaps the first time a robot was the protagonist of a film. That... »

Inspired Inventions, Electrical Oddities, Retro-Tech, Amazing Automata | Edited by serflac and Dylan

According to Dante Alighieri, past the wall of flames after the 7th terrace of Purgatory, there is an immense stone staircase leading to the Earthly Paradise so big that Dante and his companions... »

Inspired Inventions, Electrical Oddities | Edited by A Facebook user, Nicholas Jackson and 2 others

A combination free-standing tower and guyed mast, the Gerbrandy Tower is the tallest broadcasting tower in the Netherlands. More impressive, though, is what the tower becomes during the holiday... »

Unusual Monuments, Inspired Inventions, Electrical Oddities | Edited by Nicholas Jackson

The tallest windmill is actually a disguise. Hidden inside of the windmill's 43-meter-tall tower is a wind power station. Operated by the Nolet Distillery, Noletmolen in Schiedam, South Holland,... »

Inspired Inventions, Electrical Oddities, Architectural Oddities, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Nicholas Jackson

The Westerholt E-66 Observation Wind Turbine is one of more than 40 Enercon E-66 turbines in the Holtriem Wind Park, but it's a special one: At the top of the turbine, just below where the rotor... »

Inspired Inventions, Electrical Oddities, Architectural Oddities, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Nicholas Jackson

A group of six wind turbines huddled together in Laakdal, Belgium, the Nike Laakdal Wind Park is comprised of RePower MD77s with 1,500 kw of generation capacity. Each turbine was built in 2006 and... »

Inspired Inventions, Electrical Oddities | Edited by Nicholas Jackson and Byron

With a rotor that has a diameter measuring 90 meters mounted on top of a lattice tower standing 160 meters, the Fuhrlander Wind Turbine Laasow is the tallest wind turbine anywhere in the world.... »

Inspired Inventions, Electrical Oddities | Edited by Nicholas Jackson