In B.C. electricity and water do mix

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[caption id="attachment_2816" align="alignnone" width="497"]BC Hydro truck A place for everything, and everything in it's place.[/caption]

Here in the Province of British Columbia, the power generation authority is called BC Hydro; here's one of their work trucks taking a siesta in a Fairview back alley. Much of the South Coast of B.C. is classified as rain forest, and in a very real sense all of British Columbia runs on that rain water: the vast majority of our electricity, some 90 per cent, is generated using hydroelectric means. Anyway, I find this kind of work truck fascinating, particularly as a product of evolution -- I can only imagine how many factors have contributed to the exact arrangement of the various elements of this truck: trial, and error, efficiency experts, suggestions from  linemen -- here's the result to date, jam-packed with "stuff." Every single bit positioned with deliberate care, and beautifully so, I think. Click the images to enlarge them.

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