Jungle

Field guide No. 412

At night, every transformer in a fenced electrical substation is a giant black candle with a lit wick, wax running down over the insulators. The grid is now on candle power.

Wax transformer substation at midnight

High voltage, low flame.

At night, every transformer in a fenced electrical substation is a giant black candle with a lit wick, wax running down over the insulators. The grid is now on candle power.

Field noteTransformers are steel and oil. Built in wax with lit wicks, they’d melt at the first load.

Specimen
No. 412
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Material
Where it doesn’t exist
A fenced substation at night.
Nearest existing relative
A pillar candle.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Spaces
Season
Slopoween. In season in October: the walk only passes it then.

Also possible, also breaking material