Zax (Duke Power)

[1] In 1984, Duke Power released a series of public service announcements to educate children on how to be safe and use electricity efficiently.

These cartoon PSAs featured a small, eager to learn computer generated program named Zax, and a group of children who tried to keep him from getting injured or killed by electricity.

The children explain that he's not being safe — kids should never try to climb electric poles or towers, or fly kites and planes close to power lines.

Other spots feature the children stopping Zax from taking a bath with electric devices nearby, going near downed power lines after a storm and other "misadventures".

Duke's "World of Energy" exhibition hall at the Oconee Nuclear Station in Seneca, South Carolina, includes a display with a life-sized sculpture of Zax.