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High Voltage Transmission Pylons, near Tracy, CA, 2010. (fedia.io)

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High Voltage Transmission Pylons, near Tracy, CA, 2010.

All the pixels, none of the electrocution hazard, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4491938005/

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[–] mattblaze@federate.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

This was captured with a DSLR and a 24mm shifting lens.

This "portal" type transmission pylon, looking like part of an army of rather menacing giant robots, is part of the Pacific AC Intertie, one of the two major power transmission trunks running up and down the western US. It has capacity for about 5 gigawatts of electric power.

Do not climb.

[–] mattblaze@federate.social 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Here, as elsewhere, infrastructure is quietly heroic.

[–] SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@mattblaze@federate.social Interesting compositional choice, to include the fence. I’d probably have omitted it.

[–] mattblaze@federate.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange I go back and forth on how much context I like to show.

[–] wseltzer@infosec.exchange 1 points 1 month ago

@mattblaze@federate.social @SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange I like the interplay of off-vertical lines

[–] drwho@masto.hackers.town 1 points 1 month ago

@mattblaze@federate.social May I quote you on that?

[–] alec@perkins.pub 1 points 1 month ago

@mattblaze@federate.social they look straight out of Tron