What do you call this place?

3 years ago by Favrion to c/asklemmy

Electric Valley? Wire Canyon? Zap Way?

troyunrau 125 points 3 years ago

Utility corridor. Sometimes a "Right of Way".

Depending on where you live, "hydro lines" or "transmission lines" or similar.

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WhatsUpDoc 23 points 3 years ago

I used the term Hydro line once on Reddit and had a lot of people asking what the hell I was talking about.

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Bert_the_Troll 46 points 3 years 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.

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humorlessrepost 22 points 3 years ago

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

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GONADS125 6 points 3 years ago

I call them that sometimes, but mostly just "power lines."

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davidgro 7 points 3 years 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.

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Cocodapuf 2 points 3 years 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...

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guyrocket 5 points 3 years ago

Right. Cause we're not looney.

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WhatsUpDoc 4 points 3 years ago

I sure am

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wandermind 11 points 3 years ago

To me "hydro line" sounds like a weird way to say "water pipe".

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Ilovethebomb 6 points 3 years ago

Mostly because hydro means water. Of course that would be confusing.

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Sabin10 9 points 3 years ago

I would call it a hydro corridor.

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Maddie 90 points 3 years ago

Electric Avenue

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slurpeesoforion 40 points 3 years ago

And then we take it higher

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Carvex 11 points 3 years ago

motorcycle revs

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TheOneWithTheHair 10 points 3 years ago

American Torii Gateways.

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JimmyBigSausage 43 points 3 years ago

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AtmaJnana 33 points 3 years ago

Right-of-way, right-o'way, utility easement

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F_Haxhausen 26 points 3 years ago

Liminal.

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captain_aggravated 25 points 3 years ago

That's a powerline cut.

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Mr_Dr_Oink 25 points 3 years ago

Electricitrees

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LemmyKnowsBest 4 points 3 years ago

Is this a contest for best comment? 🏆

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jcrabapple 21 points 3 years ago

Electric Avenue. Let's rock down to it.

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charonn0 14 points 3 years ago

Strips cut through forested areas like this are generally called fire breaks. I don't know if there's a more specific term for those beneath power lines.

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kerrigan778 13 points 3 years ago

Down by the power lines

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Mamertine 12 points 3 years ago

Power lines.

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eltrain123 11 points 3 years ago

An electrical easement.

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weariedfae 10 points 3 years ago

Utility cut

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dank953 8 points 3 years ago

the Cut. (Low and ominous)

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afraid_of_zombies 1 point 3 years ago

Same, there was one by my home growing up and we all called it that.

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Karlos_Cantana 7 points 3 years ago

If you put a tent there, I'd call it home.

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nilloc 3 points 3 years ago

Make sure it has fiberglass poles or things could get a little tingly.

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Karlos_Cantana 1 point 3 years ago

I like it when my thing gets tingly.

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blackdeth 7 points 3 years ago

The Iron Giant's home

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Chainweasel 7 points 3 years ago

"right of way"

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stoy 7 points 3 years ago

In Swedish it would be called "kraftledningsgata", directly translated to English that means "powerline street", but I already saw a better name for it in the comments "utility corridoor"

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MuhammadJesusGaySex 2 points 3 years ago

And then we’ll take it higher.

https://youtu.be/IuwxZSIS__4?feature=shared

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canitendtherabbits 7 points 3 years ago

I seriously have a fantasy about hiking/backpacking the length of one of these. I wonder if there's a legal way to do that.

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Gormadt 3 points 3 years ago

I haven't done the full length of one but I've gone pretty far down one before

Basically you just need to figure out who owns the land and depending on that would depend on if you can legally or not

When I did it though I didn't check first because I was basically banking on the fact it was near a national forest so if someone stopped me I'd claim (accurately) that I didn't know it wasn't a part of the national forest. Of course I'm not sure if it is a part of it or not, but if I did get stopped at least I'd know for sure. I didn't get stopped but I did have a nice day out there.

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anton 8 points 3 years ago

"Land of the free", doesn't have right to roam...

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RedAggroBest 4 points 3 years ago

Because it's not needed outside the eastern US. The vast majority of land around me is public and anyone can go out. Right to roam would just give me the right to trample through someone's property when there's plenty of public land to go around it with, which is what right to roam usually entails anyways.

This is genuinely a states issue and not something federal.

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lud 0 points 3 years ago

Walking very close to someone's home is also illegal with the right to roam. The right to roam just gives everyone the right to walk were they want except in someone's garden. You can also camp anywhere (gardens excluded of course) for a day (or two can't remember) without asking anyone for permission.

One kinda surprising thing is that everyone is allowed to enter fenced animal pastures, provided that they aren't malicious and that they close the gate.

It's an amazing right that should exist in the entire world.

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Gormadt 4 points 3 years ago

NGL I really wish we had that here

There's some beautiful places that are cut off from people because of it being private property

The worst is when someplace becomes private property after being open to the public for a long time

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SHamblingSHapes 6 points 3 years ago

Easement corridor for power lines.

The area where there are always open camping sites in that one national park because no one wants to sleep under the high voltage lines and get cancer.

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const_void 1 point 3 years ago

Which park?

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fung 6 points 3 years ago

Peaceful wooded area with power transmission.

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MarioSpeedWagon 5 points 3 years ago

High line

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Kolanaki 5 points 3 years ago

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

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FartsWithAnAccent 2 points 3 years ago

GET OUT OF HERE STALKER!

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Kolanaki 1 point 3 years ago

"What are you waiting for? I said come in, STALKER!"

"Uh... You guys are giving me mixed messages. You want me to come in or get out?"

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planetaryprotection 5 points 3 years ago

Power cut

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JakoJakoJako13 5 points 3 years ago

Green Belt

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Everythingispenguins 5 points 3 years ago

Isn't that sort of the opposite of a green belt?

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JakoJakoJako13 2 points 3 years ago

I don't know. That's just what everybody in my neighborhood calls it.

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NAXLAB 5 points 3 years ago

I like zap way

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paddirn 5 points 3 years ago

The Dead Zone

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CarlsIII 5 points 3 years ago

It’s that scene from the Shining with the twins, being played by a couple of those giant robots I keep seeing on the hills while driving on I-5

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pewgar_seemsimandroid 4 points 3 years ago

i never had to call it anything so im calling it zap way

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HubertManne 3 points 3 years ago

oh those are the covid vaccine mind control passages. Its only safe for lizard people and nords to pass through.

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dominoko 3 points 3 years ago

Not sure if you are looking for a series answer, but where I live they are called: Right-of-Ways

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forty2 2 points 3 years ago

Currents Through the Wild

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Pandantic 2 points 3 years ago

I mean, I was thinking tree line, but I just now realized that that is the other part. I don’t know what the power line corridor is called…

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Ildar 2 points 3 years ago

Просека

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melkiythegreat 2 points 3 years ago

ЛЭП - линия электро передачи, если конкретнее

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Ildar -1 points 3 years ago

Но в общем - просека

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Hiro8811 2 points 3 years ago

This photo makes me think of childhood

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ByteJunk 2 points 3 years ago

I need to know where this is, I'm sure I'm going to come across a door with this rune

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BigWheelPowerBrakeSlider 2 points 3 years ago

The Powerlines--a place for high schoolers to throw keggers.

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DreamySweet 2 points 3 years ago

Crunskguloria.

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CPMSP 2 points 3 years ago

Cross country ski trail after a foot or two of snow.

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berryjam 1 point 3 years ago

Fire break

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samtoxie 1 point 3 years ago

That dry vegetation looks like it will have no problem burning like hell

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berryjam 1 point 3 years ago

It may burn, but the gap is supposed to prevent the flames from leaping to the other side and burning that as well. It is moot if both sides catch fire independently

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samtoxie 1 point 3 years ago

If the wind is in the right direction and it sufficiently dry, it will have no problem leaping over I think.

Of course this is better than nothing indeed, but I think this has more to do with the cables themselve and preventing them from "earthing" if they would sink.

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Magzmak 1 point 3 years ago

Call them the electronic giants to our toddler

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milicent_bystandr 0 points 3 years ago

"Ni"

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Unwind2046 0 points 3 years ago

Double Circuit

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BigDanishGuy 0 points 3 years ago

Pogostickland

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YoBuckStopsHere -19 points 3 years ago

The Cancer Zone, avoid electrical easements.

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Pons_Aelius 15 points 3 years ago

Please get your medical advice from doctors and not social media.

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YoBuckStopsHere -15 points 3 years ago

I see you're buying into the corporate propaganda. Guess who paid for "studies" to clear power companies from liability.

Here are a few of the conclusions from studies that have discovered a strong link between proximity to power lines and health problems:

Cancer: Exposure to power lines has been connected to cancer. Brain cancer is the most common type, but associations with breast cancer and leukemia have also been claimed;

Tumors: Some studies have shown associations between brain and other cancerous tumors and exposure to power lines.

Miscarriages;

Increased susceptibility to illnesses such as cancer;

Depression;

Electric shock;

Electrocution.

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Pons_Aelius 13 points 3 years ago

Please get your medical advice from doctors and not social media.

Please get your science information fro text books not youtube.

You live in a house that is lined with electrical wires but for some reason they are not an issue to you because no one has told you to be scared of them.

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CosmicApe -4 points 3 years ago

I mean, there's a bit of a difference between the 240/120 going through your house and the 100s of KV going through transmission lines

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YoBuckStopsHere -9 points 3 years ago

Do you also believe that fracking is clean and safe?

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afraid_of_zombies 5 points 3 years ago

Power lines are more visible in areas with greater poverty, and poverty are risk factors for things like leukemia and miscarriages and depression. No animal trial has shown a link between the type of emissions that power lines give off and any medical issues. Additionally no one has been able to even demonstrate any possible mechanism for action.

But hey go ahead and prove me wrong. Get some rats and do a controlled study.

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FartsWithAnAccent -4 points 3 years ago

You're the one making the assertion: Back it up with evidence.

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Bluetreefrog 2 points 3 years ago

To be fair, you should probably back claims like these up with some references. Google scholar has a few.

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YoBuckStopsHere 0 points 3 years ago

No one online is going to change their beliefs no matter how many references are provided.

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