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humanoidhistory · 2 days

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Transformer station in Dresden, German, dismantled in 1983.

(Deutsche Fotothek)

#electricity #dresden #history #black and white #transformer #engineering

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dvrknessabides · 2 days

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I think they filmed Breaking Bad here?

Shot in Abq, NM 2018

#photographers on tumblr #streetphotography #original photographers #photography #my photography #street photography #landscape #art #contemporary photography #new mexico #breaking bad #lightning #nm photog #aura photography #architecture photography #buildings #electricity #color

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zegalba · 11 months

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Tavares Strachan: Invisible Astronaut (2013)

#Tavares Strachan #Invisible Astronaut #art #sculpture #body #electricity #2013

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nemfrog · 8 months

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"Wonderful Tesla oscillating tower...intended for radiating electrical energy in the form of high frequency waves propagated through the Earth itself."

The Electrical experimenter. March 1916.

Internet Archive

#tesla tower #shoreham n.y.#nikola tesla #science #electricity #nemfrog #1916 #1910s #1k

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not-available-for-comment · 4 months

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Long shot, but does anyone have a good “understanding electricity for complete idiots who like not being electrocuted”? I’d like to understand solar power setups better, but this seems to involve understanding things like volts and ohms and resistance and other concepts that have historically made my eyes glaze over.

Free stuff is nice but I do have a small budget if you have a particularly excellent paid resource to recommend.

Please reblog for eventual access to Electrician Tumblr. Thank you! 🙏

#rocky rambles #rec request #electricity #electrician

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theashpit · 8 months

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ITS A SQUIRREL? SNAKE? SQUAKE?

TOBI-KADATCHI!

My partner's fav monster <3

#art #my art #fanart #monsterhunter #monster hunter world #monster hunter rise #monster hunter fanart #tobi kadachi #monster #electricity #mhw #mhr #monster hunter rise sunbreak #monster hunter world iceborne #artists on tumblr #hi yes his tail was so hard KJSNDFWEF

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tygerland · 8 months

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facts-i-just-made-up · 2 months

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A few months ago, an electrician came to my house to fix a faulty light switch. I figured it was best to have a professional check it just in case. The switch was a simple replacement but I mentioned how if it were a fire hazard or expensive repair, I wanted to have someone around who knew their stuff better than I did, at least.

He was a kind old fellow who took the time to explain what was wrong and also to show me how to recognize whether it was dangerous, which stuff to check and all. Really good guy, asked what I did and I told him about the books and blog and stuff, but forgot to mention the art stuff I did too.

A week later I ran into him at a bookstore. He was getting a pile of books on painting, drawing, etc. I asked if he was going into art stuff and he explained that he'd always wanted to but never had time. Finally at the age of 78 (I'd have guessed 60 but when he said it his wrinkles seemed to deepen as if to confirm), he was retiring and wanted to try. I mentioned that I did a lot of art stuff and would be happy to share anything I knew. He said he'd take me up on it if he had any questions, he'd write me here on the blog.

Months passed and I forgot about him, mostly. I never did get a message but I wished him well when he came to mind, whenever I hit that switch for my porch light. This morning at the same store, I ran into him again. He asked why I hadn't replied. I apologized, and explained that I hadn't seen it. He said he had sent it to my art blog, which didn't have notifications on. I hadn't told him about that blog at all, but he found it linked from my writing blog and asked there.

I promised to check it the moment I got home. He didn't mind, just grinned and said it was no hurry, he had his retirement to enjoy and whenever I got to his question it would be fine, nothing urgent. I apologized again and actually cancelled the rest of my errands so I could get home and reply immediately. I felt really bad.

I got home and opened my art blog and there it was, a single anonymous question from an old man who didn't have an account. Here is what he'd sent:

Yes it can, Mr. Alvarez. It can indeed.

#electricity #bookstores #art advice #unreality

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smithsonianlibraries · 1 year

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Illustrations of electrical sparks from Memorie - Classe di scienze fisiche, matematiche e naturali ser.3:v.1:disp.1 (1877).

Full text here.

#scientific illustration #electricity

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an-albino-pinetree · 5 months

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Is Jax still afraid of corn, and if not... what's his new greatest fear?

#electricity #my stuff #ask #carnival au #carnival!jax #tadc #the amazing digital circus #tadc jax #jax #cw disturbing #?

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webdiggerxxx · 7 months

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#freezing rain #frozen #ice #icy #wires #telephone poles #power lines #electricity #winter #kentucky #aesthetic #flickr #oldweb #old web

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scienceisdope · 10 months

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Scientists Made An Artificial "Cloud" That Pulls Electricity From Air.

The secret is tiny holes.

Taking a hint from the magician’s playbook, scientists have devised a way to pull electricity from thin air. A new study out today suggests a method in which any material can offer a steady supply of electricity from the humidity in the air.

All that’s required? A pair of electrodes and a special material engineered to have teeny tiny holes that are less than 100 nanometers in diameter. That’s less than a thousandth of the width of a human hair.

Here’s how it works: The itty-bitty holes allow water molecules to pass through and generate electricity from the buildup of charge carried by the water molecules, according to a new paper published in the journal Advanced Materials.

The process essentially mimics how clouds make the electricity that they release in lightning bolts.

Because humidity lingers in the air perpetually, this electricity harvester could run at any time of day regardless of weather conditions — unlike somewhat unreliable renewable energy technologies such as wind and solar.

“The technology may lead to truly ‘ubiquitous powering’ to electronics,” senior study author Jun Yao, an electrical engineer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, tells Inverse.

Source bit.ly/43SmPds

#science #interesting #facts #physics #electricity #engineering

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reasonsforhope · 3 months

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"The amount of electricity generated by the UK’s gas and coal power plants fell by 20% last year, with consumption of fossil fuels at its lowest level since 1957.

Not since Harold Macmillan was the UK prime minister and the Beatles’ John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time has the UK used less coal and gas.

The UK’s gas power plants last year generated 31% of the UK’s electricity, or 98 terawatt hours (TWh), according to a report by the industry journal Carbon Brief, while the UK’s last remaining coal plant produced enough electricity to meet just 1% of the UK’s power demand or 4TWh.

Fossil fuels were squeezed out of the electricity system by a surge in renewable energy generation combined with higher electricity imports from France and Norway and a long-term trend of falling demand.

Higher power imports last year were driven by an increase in nuclear power from France and hydropower from Norway in 2023. This marked a reversal from 2022 when a string of nuclear outages in France helped make the UK a net exporter of electricity for the first time.

Carbon Brief found that gas and coal power plants made up just over a third of the UK’s electricity supplies in 2023, while renewable energy provided the single largest source of power to the grid at a record 42%.

It was the third year this decade that renewable energy sources, including wind, solar, hydro and biomass power, outperformed fossil fuels [in the UK], according to the analysis. Renewables and Britain’s nuclear reactors, which generated 13% of electricity supplies last year, helped low-carbon electricity make up 55% of the UK’s electricity in 2023.

[Note: "Third year this decade" refers to the UK specifically, not global; there are several countries that already run on 100% renewable energy, and more above 90% renewable. Also, though, there have only been four years this decade so far! So three out of four is pretty good!]

Dan McGrail, the chief executive of RenewableUK, said the data shows “the central role that wind, solar and other clean power sources are consistently playing in Britain’s energy transition”.

“We’re working closely with the government to accelerate the pace at which we build new projects and new supply chains in the face of intense global competition, as everyone is trying to replicate our success,” McGrail said.

Electricity from fossil fuels was two-thirds lower in 2023 compared with its peak in 2008, according to Carbon Brief. It found that coal has dropped by 97% and gas by 43% in the last 15 years.

Coal power is expected to fall further in 2024 after the planned shutdown of Britain’s last remaining coal plant in September. The Ratcliffe on Soar coal plant, owned by the German utility Uniper, is scheduled to shut before next winter after generating power for over 55 years.

Renewable energy has increased sixfold since 2008 as the UK has constructed more wind and solar farms, and the large Drax coal plant has converted some of its generating units to burn biomass pellets.

Electricity demand has tumbled by 22% since its peak in 2005, according to the data, as part of a long-term trend driven by more energy efficient homes and appliances as well as a decline in the UK’s manufacturing sector.

Demand for electricity is expected to double as the UK aims to cut emissions to net zero by 2050 because the plan relies heavily on replacing fossil fuel transport and heating with electric alternatives.

In recent weeks [aka at the end of 2023], offshore wind developers have given the green light to another four large windfarms in UK waters, including the world’s largest offshore windfarm at Hornsea 3, which will be built off the North Yorkshire coast by Denmark’s Ørsted."

-via The Guardian, January 2, 2024

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classicalartdark · 1 year

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Edit after Maurice Boudet de Paris (Elektrische stroom tussen zes munten, c. 1876 - in or before 1886) (2) (Rijksmuseum) (Ed. Lic.: CC BY-NC 3.0)

#dark art #art #circle #electricity #light #physics #new pd edit #rijksmuseum #CC BY NC

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chansondereste · 11 months

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#dark #electricity #Finepix XP20

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ovytia-art · 1 year

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Did two for ‘Electric Core AU’ because I didn’t like my sketch once I got started working on it more. These are both kinda meh for me, but I’m at least learning how to drawing lighting better?

DannyMay Masterlist

#dannymay2023 #lightning #digital art #my art #art #drawing #dp #danny phantom #digital painting #fanart #electric core au #electricity #storm #eye strain #.5k #1k

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