{"id":1072,"date":"2009-01-17T20:21:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T03:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/17\/lots-of-volts"},"modified":"2009-01-17T20:21:31","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T03:21:31","slug":"lots-of-volts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/17\/lots-of-volts","title":{"rendered":"Lots of Volts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably never thought &#8220;gee, I wonder how they inspect high-tension power lines without turning off the electricity.&#8221; I know I haven&#8217;t. If you were to ask yourself that question, though, you&#8217;d realize that it must be a tricky task. There&#8217;s a remarkable video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x5lpz1_high-voltage-cable-inspection_lifestyle\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> showing how they do it. The short version of the story is that they use helicopters to put people in fireproof, conductive suits onto the lines, where they perch like birds.<\/p>\n<p>[Found on <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hack a Day<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably never thought &#8220;gee, I wonder how they inspect high-tension power lines without turning off the electricity.&#8221; I know I haven&#8217;t. If you were to ask yourself that question, though, you&#8217;d realize that it must be a tricky task. There&#8217;s a remarkable video here showing how they do it. The short version of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/17\/lots-of-volts\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lots of Volts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}