Sentences with phrase «steel pylon»
The Grid We Have When electricity leaves a power plant today, it is shuttled from place to place over high - voltage lines, those cables on steel pylons that cut across landscapes and run virtually contiguously from coast to coast.
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As of early October, the team has installed over 117,000 steel pylons and 77,000 heliostats.
The amount of energy embedded in steel pylons, concrete footings, blades, wiring, magnets, land clearing and roads is -LSB-...]
Thanks to the hard work of all workers involved in the heliostat process, the team installed the 100,000 th steel pylons and the 50,000 th heliostat by the end of last month.
Not exact matches
From the New Donk City Hall checkpoint, run to where the Spark pylon wires are, then drop down to collect three Regional Coins hidden on some steel grating.
London Design Festival 2015: British artist Alex Chinneck has revealed a 35 - metre - tall latticed steel sculpture resembling an upside - down electricity pylon for this year's London Design Festival (+ slideshow).
London Design Festival 2015: British artist Alex Chinneck has revealed a 35 - metre - tall latticed steel sculpture resembling an upside - down electricity pylon for this year's London Design Festival (+ slideshow).
When the highways fail, so will the power grid, as highways carry the parts, transformers, steel for pylons, and high tension cables, all from far away.
When you investigate the materials used, (steel for the 400 feet high towers, copper for the generator and base transformer, copper and aluminium to connect them all together, also timber for the pylons and cables needed to connect to the national grid and hundreds of thousands of tons of concrete to make the foundations.