A different take on the landscape this morning. A wooden pylon holding a corner in a medium voltage transmission line
The same pylon taken only a few minutes later but this time from the other side against the sunlit sky
From the corner the pylons march across the meadow to the river
Are they supplying electricity to a farm on the other side of the river? Perhaps not, or is it the other side that is unpowered? Or are they both powered? But at least there is no flow of energy through the line at this point
There is an exhibition in Spain with some delightfully naughty pictures.
“It’s them, doing their own collection of … we would call it now porn photography, but at the time they called it fotografía galante, which I prefer much more,” says Trullo. “There were many sessions, so it wasn’t just one – they were very into it.”
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Álbum de Salón y Alcoba showcases posed and private photos of married couple found in case unopened for 80 years
@turbineman40 According to the article they married in 1922 and the packet of pictures and other documents were deposited somewhere, possibly a bank box in 1937. They were passed to the museum eightyyears later in 2017..
@Lostpoet Weird? Why's it weird? It looks like it might be capable of being remotely occupied because below the breakers there is a box with an antenna. I've never looked closely at it before so I don't know if the two segments are ever connected.
@Lostpoet I imagine that they were in use at one time. Perhaps new lines elsewhere rendered them unnecessary. Leaving them in place but with remotely operated switches might make the network more resilient because they might be able to be used as a route around a failure. But it's not a very high capacity line. It's only a few kilovolts so it won't be capable of transmiting much power, so I'm rather uncertain about that.
Edit 19:47 I've just looked up the type of poles. It's probably an 11 kV line.
