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By Cyriaque Lamar Feb 5, 2011 9:12 AM

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If Tesla built an Arctic citadel, it might look something like this

Photographer Dmitry Mordolff took these astounding shots of a snow-covered electromagnetic field testing station, or "Tesla's bench," in Istra outside of Moscow. All it takes is a dab of blizzard to transform electrical equipment into a hyper-futuristic snow fortress.

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