’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.
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Neat!
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.
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