SEVERE WINDSTORMS OCCUR IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES AND AROUND THE WORLD. Since 2004, the Southeastern United States has been hit with nine major hurricanes causing billions of dollars in damage ...
How many wood poles do woodpeckers peck, since woodpeckers do peck poles? In a typical midsize city, roughly 1,000 telephone poles have to be replaced every year because birds -- and then rain -- ...
The ground conditions in Lapland can be very stony. The distribution utility in northern Finland, Rovakaira Networks Construction Ltd., distributes power to 30,000 customers. The population is sparse, ...
When power lines meet ferocious gales, accumulating ice or falling trees, something’s gotta give. Often, it’s the humble wooden utility pole, which snaps like a matchstick. Last May, a line of intense ...
Cox Industries is attaching passive EPC Gen 2 ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID tags to wooden utility poles after they are manufactured at its Blackstone, Va., facility, in order to track their location ...
This year is finally the end of the line for an 81-year-old wooden B.C. Hydro pole that has stood at Jordan River since William Lyon Mackenzie King was Canada’s prime minister and “Duff” Pattullo was ...
This was after the firm revised its policy on electricity poles. In a move that has baffled stakeholders in the forestry and energy sectors, the firm will phase out wooden poles it has used since 1922 ...
New broadband services that need space for wires on utility poles and PPL’s own installation of taller, sturdier poles have both contributed in recent years to a problem that sometimes hides in plain ...
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