Sentences with phrase «electric pylon»
In perhaps the most revealing moment of John Trengove's The Wound, a band of young Xhosa tribesmen who've been living in huts and enduring an unspeakable initiation ceremony wander out of a thicket and are confronted by an electric pylon.
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When young condors released into the wild electrocuted themselves on power lines, the scientists installed mock pylons in their cages, delivering mild electric shocks to any bird that perched on them.
Because powerlines are typically 400,000 volts, and Earth is at an electrical potential voltage of zero volts, pylons create electric fields between the cables they carry and the ground.