Word: volts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hated "line" is a 400,000-volt power transmission cable. After a two-year court fight, the line is beginning to slice a 160-ft.-wide swath through the dairy and grain country. It is supposed to run 427 miles, from the lignite coal mines of North Dakota to the vicinity of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Ironically, it is being constructed by two rural power cooperatives-the very sort of company that barely 40 years ago was warmly welcomed by farmers whose remote homesteads had been bypassed by the electrical revolution...
...yard (see diagram). As usual during routine operations, the tower nearest to it was unmanned. The men erected a makeshift ladder crudely fashioned out of iron water pipes stolen from the prison's plumbing. Frantically, the men scrambled up the ladder and wiggled under the 2,300-volt electrified barbed wire that ran 18 in. above the top. At about that moment, all of the phones inexplicably went dead in the prison and for six to seven miles around. One after another, the men began making the long drop to freedom...
...Taser, powered by six rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries, fires two barbs attached to 18 feet of fine wire. When the barbs hit a human, a current that can build up to a three-watt, 50,000-volt charge leaps through the closed circuit. The shock instantly disrupts the victim's nervous system, his eyes close, and he slumps to the floor jerking spasmodically. When the current is turned off, muscular control returns immediately, but a mild state of shock persists...
Tentatively called a "J" particle by Ting's team, which used the 33 billion-electron-volt accelerator at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and a "Psi" particle by Richter's group at the two-mile-long Stanford Linear Accelerator, it was the heaviest atomic fragment ever found-almost 3% times more massive than the proton. It was also, by nuclear standards, extremely long-lived. It survived a full one-hundred billionths of one-billionth of a second, or 1,000 times longer than other massive particles...
...source of the troubles is the Ohio Power Co.'s new "extra-high-voltage" (765,000-volt) transmission line through southern Ohio. It is radiating so powerful an electromagnetic field that an unconnected fluorescent tube would light up. It is all very spectacular, but residents are not amused...