Steady gusts of wind swept across a field in Maple Grove last week as Warren Grange of Heimdall Power flew a drone to attach what looks like a high-tech cantaloupe on to a power line. The small sphere, which the Norway-based company officially calls a "neuron," has drawn nicknames like "magic ball" or "orb." Whatever the name, electric cooperative Great River Energy plans to install 52 of .
The Norwegian-based Heimdall Power is behind a sphere-shaped sensor that the company refers to as "neurons." The press has referred to them as "magic balls."
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