’Magic balls’ installed by drones may soon be revolutionizing the US power grid: ‘Unrivaled quality at scale’::High-voltage power lines in the United States will soon be monitored by “magic balls” from Norway.
The article is just content generated by a power company intern. The tech is neat and probably worth looking into but it’s a marketing fluff piece desperately using “drone” as SEO bait. Also worth noting is how often “almost” and “may” are used.
The spheres measure line temperature, current, and other key metrics. . . . “We now know exactly how much spare capacity that is available in the line, and how much power we could potentially send through the network,” Bjørnvold said in the press release.
Kinda surprised that capability wasn’t built into the grid by default.
Most likely brand new lines have that functionality but 90% of grid is very old
Neat!
