Hidden in huge laboratories, old hangars or in the middle of desolated moors, a race of beings inhabits. Their giant metalic arms forge and handle with elemental energies of nature. Some of them seem mechas from the future and many others, coelenterate cyborgs. They are capable of a terrible and divine power, as that which served to Zeus from Olympus: the ray.
They carry a timeless existence, unknown to most mortals. As forgotten gods. Under his steely exoskeleton, beats a dielectric heart which synthesizes food for the human civilization, silently : generating, transforming, pulsing…
Serve this article as a tribute to this noble lineage:
# 1. Crockcroft-Walton generator at Fermilab, 50 miles from Chicago, generates the high voltage needed to accelerate particles through the Tevatron, a particle accelerator used to discover the Quark Top.#2. Siemens HVDC transformer (High Voltage DC): energy transmission between Australia and Tasmania. DC transmission is more efficient and cleaner than traditional systems.#3. High Voltage circuit breaker testing at Siemens’ power station in Berlin. This device is enduring a million times the disruptive capacity of a home fuse.#4. Huge ultra-high voltage testing set known as «Tesla Set», near the Russian city of Istra. Photo by: Dmitry Mordolff#5. Last review of a 800kV HVDC transformer in Nuremberg, before being delivered to China for the Yunnan-Guangdong system. This is currently the second most powerful HVDC system in the world.
