About four years ago, Gary Wilson, underground line superintendent for the Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative (GVEC) in Gonzales, Texas, U.S., decided to really transform an old transformer. He and his crew took a discarded 1,000-kV three-phase batten-mount transformer and turned it into a transportable barbecue cooker. Today, the old transformer no longer emits kilo-volts but rather the electrifying sights and smells of tasty Texas barbecue. "We cleaned it out, put in some racks and shelves, constructed a trailer to fit around it and built a smoke pit," Wilson says of the project. "Every time we think of something else, we add to it. I just thought it would be kind of fun."
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