{"id":44464,"date":"2014-08-20T14:55:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T20:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/20\/quickly-invert-the-phase-couplings-in-the-tetryon-field.html"},"modified":"2014-08-20T17:17:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T23:17:38","slug":"quickly-invert-the-phase-couplings-in-the-tetryon-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/20\/quickly-invert-the-phase-couplings-in-the-tetryon-field.html","title":{"rendered":"Quickly, invert the phase couplings in the tetryon field!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">So I saw this on a big metal box while on a walk today, complete with blinking green light, and I had to say to myself, &quot;What the hell is a Cathodic Protection Rectifier?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Turns out its for protecting metal (e.g., pipelines) from corrosion by running electrical current through it. (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cathodic_protection\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cathodic_protection<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>And now I know. Except for now wondering what sort of metal structure is being protected.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-y3k2dIxa5rM\/U_UKH4UaLLI\/AAAAAAACydQ\/CW4EhIpyBiA\/IMG_20140820_141839278.jpg?imgmax=1024' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/GgxztYkGGjA' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I saw this on a big metal box while on a walk today, complete with blinking green light, and I had to say to myself, &quot;What the hell is a Cathodic Protection Rectifier?&quot; Turns out its for protecting metal (e.g., pipelines) from corrosion by running electrical current through it. (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cathodic_protection). And now I know. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/20\/quickly-invert-the-phase-couplings-in-the-tetryon-field.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quickly, invert the phase couplings in the tetryon field!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_20140820_141839278.jpg.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8143,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/09\/and_the_sandals.html","url_meta":{"origin":44464,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;&#8230; And the sandals you walked in on&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-May-05 6:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Going through the security checkpoint at DIA, the TSA gent peered over the conveyor to look at my shoes. \"They're sandals,\" I told him. \"All rubber. 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