transformer

"If you change the environment even a tiny bit, the protein is like a transformer that suddenly flips from a car into a robot."

“It feels like we’re in a tornado, without the whistling sound. The winds are really, really whipping. We’ve already seen a few transformers blow in our neighbourhood just by looking out the back porch.”

They had several commercial uses, including in transformers and capacitors, oil used in motors and hydraulic systems, cable insulation, oil-based paint, caulking and plastics.

Now he’s an electrician, making union wages, installing and maintaining solar panels, switch gear, transformers, and electric car chargers.

The utility said two were due to birds hitting power lines, one was caused by a truck explosion and another because a power transformer went bad.