Pacific Intertie mercury arc valves (on the left) and one of the Gotland valve (on the right). Since this month’s feature column was about the Vancouver HVDC Intertie, I thought it might be ...

Recently my wife and I went to the beautiful city of Victoria located on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, for a vacation. At the time, the furthest thing from my mind was HVDC technology ...

A mock-up of a weapon from Bioshock 3? A radioactive steampunk fish tank? The glowing engine of a recovered Area 51 spaceship? The answer may shock you. Actually, it almost certainly will. What we ...