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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sometimes telephone pole, sometimes utility pole.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Right. Cause we're not looney.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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