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  • High-voltage cables give off EMFs—electromagnetic fields.

    The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010

  • High-voltage engines were destroyed and other key machines and tools smashed.

    Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010

  • High-voltage engines were destroyed and other key machines and tools smashed.

    Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010

  • High-voltage engines were destroyed and other key machines and tools smashed.

    Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010

  • High-voltage engines were destroyed and other key machines and tools smashed.

    Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010

  • High-voltage cables give off EMFs—electromagnetic fields.

    The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010

  • High-voltage machine shrinks quarters to the size of dimes Link

    Boing Boing 2007

  • Two-man band: Team of two workers, one operating a crane and one fixing a power lineTub: Transformer on a poleCut-outs: Fuses 20 poles apart ( "Drive to the next cut-out") Hooking it: Climbing a pole when it's inaccessible by crane ( "Gotta go hook that pole") Main run: High-voltage power line running over a main streetSpur: Side-street power line, coming off a main runLoop: Line coming off a spur

    Power Talk 2008

  • High-voltage electricity runs up the wires and into the components, generating a power spike far beyond the ability of most surge protectors ability to handle.

    Knight Rider: Electromagnetic Pulses 2008

  • High-voltage power lines — with 20,000 volts, electrocution is convenient.

    Fourteen Ways to Die in Shanghai « Gerry Canavan 2005

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