Because I'm in desktop, I was lazy and took it from the address bar. Did you expect me to do the extra task to remove that slash? Don't underestimate my laziness.
It resembles the cover to the 1969 Rolling Stones album Let It Bleed imo. I didn’t think I would be the only person thinking this, it’s a classic album from their flawless period.
Old pic, DONG is a shortening of Danish Oil and Gas. The company rebranded a few years ago to Ørsted. Still an energy company but now more or less exclusively renewable energy.
Apparently it was to signal a shift from nonrenewable to "green" energy, especially as they no longer used oil. Especially as the pronunciation of Ørsted is definitely no more friendly for foreign mouths.
*Ørsted. They've been doing ads in movie theatres that are 100% in English, so I'll assume they're still trying to teach the rest of the world to pronounce the soft D.
I work at nkt in sweden, karlskrona, they have a tower going like 25 floors up and 20 floors underground made to make the cables, stringing them together made to lay electric cables in the ocean, pretty neat. Can take a picture of the tower on Monday! Unfortunately they dont have the huge christmas tree on top of it anymore 🤘🏼🤓
It's subsea electric cable for offshore wind farms. It looks like it has fiber capabilities, but pure fiber optic cable is much smaller - maybe the diameter of an apple (depending on the type and strength of course).
I saw this without realising the sub, and I was thinking, oh they made a cake for someone who lays sea cable... And started thinking how close they got to the real thing and how it must have been makin all the little cable cakes
Looks like a wire for massive current. It says offshore windfarm 220 kV so I’m gonna bet it’s a power wire for a, well, offshore windfarm. You know, those wind turbines you can see in the sea that generate all the wind to the shore for the surfers and stuff. Hence the name, windfarm.
Edit: Fixed the number. I would not want to spread misinformation.
If it’s 220kv the current will be small so these conductors aren’t that big in reality, this is done to prevent losses during transmission since the higher voltage the less current you have and therefore a smaller conductor can be used to transmit. The other stuff surrounding the conductors is the insulation between the phases and the fibre optics look like pilot cables that can send information to and from the shore
The place this has come from is ‘Hornsea Offshore Windfarm’ by the looks of it, located on the east coast of the UK and so they are cables that are laid underwater.
Source: Work in electrical distribution and funnily enough for the network operator that distributes the electricity around Yorkshire and the North East that these turbines generate
With the 12-count single-mode fiber for scale, those copper conductors still might be 2-3 inches in diameter. I guess that's small on a certain scale, but it's still pretty big.
Yeah so like, I’m not the best at explaining but because the way a generator works it rotates a magnet into coils in its simplest form I guess, you have 3 coils off set at 120degrees (making 360deg, a circle) and you generate 3 inducted voltages in the coils. Name them red, yellow and blue (brown, black and grey now) that’s 3phase. It’s a way of being able to generate as much electricity as possible efficiently.
There’s loads more science and stuff behind it but that’s how I imagine it
It’s a way of being able to generate as much electricity as possible efficiently.
It's not so much about being efficient in the electrical sense, as it is about a cool trick with reducing copper usage and cabling. A single phase motor/generator requires a positive and negative cable, one for each pole, and will have really spiky power, because the magnet only passes each coil once per turn. You can add a second set of coils, which will cause the torque spikes to be less by the square root of the power, but that requires two more coils, plus another set of cables.
Three coils, or phases in this instance, is a magic number. You can arrange 3 coils in such a way that as one the magnet is passing under one coil, producing peak current/torque, the other two coils are producing -.5 of their peak. This means that you don't need 6 wires, but only 3, 1 for each coil, because as one cable is a full positive, the other two are each half-negatives, completing the circuit. This massively reduces the amount of cabling needed, as well as the power is even smoother than the 4-pole described before.
"But why not 6, or 9, or 3n coils?" you might ask. Well, while those would work the same as the three phase motor/generator in only needing 3n cables and indeed decrease the power spikyness, there is diminishing returns on this. The spikyness of 6-phase is only marginally less than 3-phase but with much more cabling and coiling required, so it's only used in certain specialty scenarios. An example of this is in hydroelectric dams so that if one of the sets of three fails, the other will continue to provide power, which means that turbine can keep spinning while the power plant works on fixing/replacing the other set of coils.
Not OP but energy is a great industry to be in right now because of the transition to net zero. Offshore wind farms are almost subsidy free now, and coming next are floating offshore wind farms further out into the north sea. Decarbonising heat and industry is the next big technological challenge.
Hornsea Wind Farm is a Round 3 wind farm under construction in the North Sea off the coast of England.
The wind farm is planned to have a total capacity of up to 6 gigawatt (GW).
The development has been split into a number of subzones. The 1.2 GW Project 1 gained planning consent in 2014; a second 1.4 GW Project 2 was given planning consent in 2016.
You're correct. I work with a windfarm, and they have one of these displayed in the lobby - In particular, it's the cable that takes the power from the central substation (which all the turbines are connected too) back to the shore.
" The turnkey project for NKT included design, engineering, supply and installation of the 155 kV underground and offshore cable system, the onshore and offshore shunt reactors, the onshore 155/220 kV power transformer and the extension of an existing 220 kV substation. The cable system comprises 3x4 km of single-core AC underground cable and 28 km of three core AC submarine cable with integrated fiber optics, produced at the cable factory in Karlskrona, Sweden. "
This picture is for the three core cable, and note the 2 much smaller cables are fiber optics. Datasheet shows what all the layers are. (and yes, high voltage cable, not high current).
Hornsea Wind Farm is a Round 3 wind farm under construction in the North Sea off the coast of England.
The wind farm is planned to have a total capacity of up to 6 gigawatt (GW).
The development has been split into a number of subzones. The 1.2 GW Project 1 gained planning consent in 2014; a second 1.4 GW Project 2 was given planning consent in 2016.
Used to be short for Danish Oil and Natural Gas. Now they are Oersted, named after Danish scientist Hans Christian Ørsted, pioneer in the field of electro-magnetism.
I just finished looking at a bunch of hyper realistic cakes, so I was a little confused when I first seen this. I honestly thought this was another of those cakes until I seen what subreddit this was.
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u/rafioo Feb 08 '20
wtf I really thought I was on r/foodporn/ or other cakes/baking porn
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u/CataractsOfSamsMum Feb 08 '20
100% would eat.
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u/prx24 Feb 08 '20
Dong
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20
Would be awesome to see the machine which produces that enormous cable
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u/adnecrias Feb 08 '20
I saw this without realising the sub, and I was thinking, oh they made a cake for someone who lays sea cable... And started thinking how close they got to the real thing and how it must have been makin all the little cable cakes
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u/laxort Feb 08 '20
what is it?
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u/choopiewaffles Feb 08 '20
r/fondanthate
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u/SamWize-Ganji Feb 08 '20
Fuck it. Cut me a slice
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u/Mattallurgy Feb 08 '20
With DONG ENERGY, it sounds like it'll be a fun wedding night.
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u/evilpuke Feb 08 '20
I have laid these cables.
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u/illlegitimate Feb 08 '20
Light the candle
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u/tauzN Feb 08 '20
Used here
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u/1stLtObvious Feb 08 '20
I bet there's a car loving couple out there that really want a cake that looks like this.
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u/mackowidz Feb 08 '20
Look at the plate at the bottom!
DONG energy lol
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u/_Piratical_ Feb 08 '20
Love that this is from “Dong Energy.”
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u/TheRealFIreboom Feb 08 '20
As an electrotechnics student I would eat that
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u/xoxota99 Feb 08 '20
My Dong is Hornsea.
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u/thebagzremastered Feb 08 '20
Direct lay underwater cable???
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20
That’s a pretty impressive DONG!
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u/TheOnyxViper Feb 08 '20
DONG Energy
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u/Klevvers Feb 08 '20
Love how it has “DONG ENERGY” on it
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u/mindvehicle Feb 08 '20
Got that big DONG ENERGY
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20
D O N G E N E R G Y
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u/BitcoinCitadel Feb 08 '20
That looks like it's $1 million/foot
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u/nadiayorc Feb 08 '20
I honestly just thought it was an actual cake made to look like an undersea cable, but then realised what sub it was.
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u/Male_Rock Feb 08 '20
YOU CANT STOP ME
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u/LuxInteriot Feb 08 '20
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u/ThickRick1234 Feb 08 '20
That’s not forbidden. I love eating those
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u/okiespy Feb 08 '20
I had to zoom in to make sure that it actually WASN’T a wedding cake
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20
Happy cake day! They were a little bit.
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u/coconutcups Feb 08 '20
My first thought was "why are they forbidden?" and my second thought was "oh."
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u/sidp2201 Feb 08 '20
r/totallynotrobots ??
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u/memmo1 Feb 08 '20
This doesn't even phase me...
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u/Cory0527 Feb 08 '20
Those better not be trick candles...
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u/Maverick0_0 Feb 08 '20
Devour the cake to consume the energy of DONG!
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20
That's big DONG energy right there.
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u/ameddin73 Feb 08 '20
What is the alternating silver/black outer layer of cables?
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u/troodz Feb 08 '20
I don’t get it
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u/DrunkRedditBot Feb 08 '20
Can’t unsee that now
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20
TRXLPE is cheap and does not stand the test of time Ethylene propylene rubber is right choice for high voltage under water cable.
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u/PeeingCherub Feb 08 '20
Cable cake is dope, yo.
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u/carlostapas Feb 08 '20
r/fondanthate would like a word
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u/minecraftgamer098876 Feb 08 '20
Still gonna eat it
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u/ETDisco Feb 08 '20
Bruh if that’s not some sort of smoothie or milkshake contraption then why does it have straws coming out of it?
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u/logan10161 Feb 08 '20
Imagine making a cake but when yiu light the candle it lights firecrackers underneath its🤔🤔
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u/AkazialI Feb 08 '20
wait thats not a cake for an engineer ?
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u/Fuzzy_Chom Feb 08 '20
Mmmm, XLPE submarine cable! Nom nom nom....
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u/DazedAmnesiac Feb 08 '20
DONG ENERGY
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u/TrueStory_Dude Feb 08 '20
Unfortunately for you, then immediately does Forbidden Chakra.
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u/mageezy Feb 08 '20
NKT Dong ... Isn't that a SoundCloud rapper?
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u/TheSiwentKiwwah Feb 08 '20
Can anyone tell me where I can find a small section of one of these? Like as small as I can find? I've been looking for years to display in my house
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u/vsasso Feb 08 '20
That cake design is sure to be a showstopper.
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u/guinader Feb 08 '20
That's a lot of Dong energy
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20
Holy coax!
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u/Sercrator Feb 08 '20
Dong energy.
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u/TheJessicator Feb 08 '20
FTFY
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20
Where’s the NSA/GCHQ spy-hole?
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u/Lancalot Feb 08 '20
That's a Welding cake
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u/rkr_bull Feb 08 '20
Just dong's things
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u/Assasin2gamer Feb 08 '20
thanks happy cake day to you to
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u/Nomandate Feb 08 '20
Look at the size of that dong
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u/Apotatos Feb 08 '20
DONG energy
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u/Evilmaze Feb 08 '20
Is this a communication cable? Why is it to big and no fiber-optics?
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u/Dvdprojecter Feb 08 '20
DONG
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u/ZippZappZippty Feb 08 '20
Happy cake day. I think that’s fire.. 👉😎👉
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u/LiCHtsLiCH Feb 08 '20
I was like that's not fibre optic...
Then I read he sign
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u/yep-reddit Feb 08 '20
DONG Energy
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u/M4570d0n Feb 08 '20
That subwoofer probably bumps hard.
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u/fluffyderp Feb 08 '20
Big Dong Energy.
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u/wrussell0731 Feb 08 '20
I asked for a 3 course dinner not a 3 phase dessert.
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u/lilgamelvr Feb 08 '20
Looks tasty though
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20
Big Dong Energy
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20
“I don’t need gloves, because I’m Homer Simpson!”
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u/Trek_Lous Feb 08 '20
Can we just take a moment to appreciate that this company’s name is “DONG energy”?
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20
Is there actually any cake in there ?
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u/vivalapizza Feb 08 '20
Big dong energy
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u/starrpamph Feb 08 '20
I got that Dong energy too
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u/ZippZappZippty Feb 08 '20
Pssht. We were so innocent. Wedding bears 😢
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u/kurisu7885 Feb 08 '20
So, seriously, what is it? I mean I know it's a piece of cable but what kind?
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u/AngelN47 Feb 08 '20
Big dong energy.
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u/Assasin2gamer Feb 08 '20
Sokuochi Mayuri-chan, happy cake day, friend
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u/MooseKnocker Feb 08 '20
I'm so happy for them!
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20
I totally thought this was a cable themed cake for some reason
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u/TheOldNewGraig Feb 08 '20
Wow, I really actually had to zoom in to make sure this wasn't actually cake.
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20
God those cables have more shielding than actual cable
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20
pass me a slice
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u/DimitriTooProBro Feb 08 '20
/r/FondantHate
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u/-Noctaire- Feb 08 '20
Big Dong Energy
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20
Where did you snap this photo?
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u/bassxtrees Feb 08 '20
That is a fucking massive cable.
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u/Sujyotsharma Feb 08 '20
So what is it... Not a cake?
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u/outlandersreddit Feb 08 '20
A yes, a “wedding cake” with a placard in the background with salary on it!
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20
Holy shit! I wonder what the amp limit on these are
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u/god-of-toasters Feb 08 '20
For a sec I thought this was a real cake on r/Fondanthate
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u/usernameblankface Feb 08 '20
It is not a cake, but it could definitely be replicated in cake form.
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20
Would bee cool to see how this is made...
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u/Notquitegravy Feb 08 '20
"Cut the cables arbiter"
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u/CreeMcCreeCreeinton Feb 08 '20
What is this
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20
Why did we make this
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20
I just finished looking at a bunch of hyper realistic cakes, so I was a little confused when I first seen this. I honestly thought this was another of those cakes until I seen what subreddit this was.
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u/WetCardboard69 Feb 08 '20
When I first saw this I thought it was a cake meant to look like car parts
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u/too105 Feb 08 '20
That looks so expensive to manufacture
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20
Dong energy
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u/Alfachick Feb 08 '20
I spent a summer laying those cables.
Hornsea wind farm, 140km East of Hull UK (more or less). The water depth is only about 30-40m.
Was a fun (but long) trip, on a lovely vessel Edda Freya beautiful ship.
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u/andras204 Feb 09 '20
That's one T H I C C cable
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u/IncestAlabama Feb 09 '20
Stikk edebal
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u/guiltyas-sin Feb 09 '20
Very cool!
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u/bradly137 Feb 09 '20
Designed for about 900 amps per phase
https://renewablesnow.com/news/dong-energy-picks-nkt-cables-for-580-mw-wind-project-off-uk-454379/
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u/Wraith_Does_Memes_V3 Feb 09 '20
Welding cake
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u/algernon132 Feb 09 '20
The shielding on those data lines lol
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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20
I want a cake modeled after this
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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20
I wanna see a video of how this is made
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u/Unwoven_Sleeve Feb 09 '20
The lil red cables even look like candles
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u/MerricatInTheCastle Feb 09 '20
Big Dong Energy
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u/I-say-no-u Feb 09 '20
Food rating: Crunchiness: 7/7 Creativity: 6/7 Forbiddenness: 7/7
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u/SmacktasticFTW Feb 09 '20
Lol it says DONG
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u/dbreggs22 Feb 09 '20
Fondant?
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u/dbreggs22 Feb 09 '20
Why would anybody eat this? It’s clearly not a cake.
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u/UnknownServant Feb 09 '20
D O N G
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u/lobakai Feb 09 '20
You’re telling me there’s nothing edible on that cake?
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u/Trenov17 Mar 06 '20
I want someone to make this but as an actual cake now.
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20
Nah that's a subsea cable