http://www.metafilter.com/tags/highvoltage Posts tagged with 'highvoltage' at MetaFilter. Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:50:46 -0800 Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:50:46 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/62632/Danger%2DDanger%2DHigh%2DVoltage <a href="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/07/creepy-high-voltage-installations.html">Creepy High Voltage Installations</a> The Russian countryside yields sometimes most improbable sights - abandoned artifacts and installations from bizarre military/scientific research, strangely futuristic forms left to rust and decay - to be found by a curious photographer. <a href="http://master-z-great.livejournal.com/">"Master"</a> stumbled upon this installation close to Russian city of Istra (50 km from Moscow) quite by chance, and these mysterious shots were percolating for a while around the web, until the answer was found. According to <a href="http://www.istra.ru/~vei/stend.html">this little, cryptic, and quite secretive website</a> <small>[in Russian]</small>, the weird alien-like towers are the Experimental Grounds for High-Voltage Generation, the only open-air kind in the world. Amazingly, it's still in use... as the powerful lightnings rip through the night and the darkened forest - much like in "The Prestige" movie. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.62632 Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:50:46 -0800 electricity highvoltage photography Russia tesla psmealey