Electric Valley? Wire Canyon? Zap Way?

  • Bert_the_Troll@reddthat.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    45
    ·
    11 months ago

    Are you Canadian by any chance? It’s common in Canada to call electrical utilities “hydro” whether there’s water generation or not. In the states they don’t do this as much. At least not in my experience.

    • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      21
      ·
      11 months ago

      Similarly, in the US we have “telephone poles” to carry residential power lines, even if there are no telecom wires on them.

        • tyrefyre@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          11 months ago

          But what do you call the actual wooden pole that holds the power lines? Like if someone hit the pole how would you describe it?

        • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          11 months ago

          Utility poles. Could carry electricity and/or telephone and/or cable tv. In some places it may be home to street lights, sirens, emergency signals, fiber optic cables & junctions/splitters, or other infrastructure.

    • davidgro@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      edit-2
      11 months ago

      Interesting. I haven’t heard them called that, even though I’m in a state where most electricity is from hydro, And my state borders Canada.

      • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        11 months ago

        Well hello there Washington citizen! WA is the only state in the US to get most of its electricity from hydro.

        You’ve got a great river system up there and WA manages to put it all to great use. If the whole country had that kind of river network, perhaps we’d all be running on renewables…

        • davidgro@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          11 months ago

          Ah - I didn’t know we were the only ones who do. But yes, it’s nice to have that. I understand we also have the largest ferry system in at least the US, although I think that’s not directly related to the rivers.