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[Varche]

Saw this on the news this morning and immediately submitted my idea. Bury the new stuff under the ground. Perfect. Costs a bit more but preserves what little countryside we have left.

I won't win of course but it isn't very GREEN to put up more of the damned things. Of course the competition is just a thinly veiled ploy dreamt up by some marketing youth straight out of Uni at the direction of Huhne no doubt to soften us all up.

Big Society? [size=8]Little minds[/size]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Pylons-Chris-Huhne-Launches-Competition-To-Change-Design-Of-Electricity-Pylons/Article/201105415997131?f=rss

[aaronjb]

Surely it's not going to preserve the countryside if you're digging a dirty great trench across hundreds of miles of it?

[o-meg-a]

green grows back....you'll never even know it was there after a while.

Metal is environmentally more polluting that laying it in soil....The factories which produce the pylons create masses of environmental pollution...
 
And they are an eye sore forever....not just a year or so.

[o-meg-a]

it always comes down to money....

If there was NO other option but to lay them in the ground....it'd be done.

[aaronjb]

Fair point, well made 

Though I quite like these: http://www.greenlaunches.com/other-stuff/power-lines-turn-creative-with-humanshaped-pylons.php 

[Dishevelled Den]

Fair point, well made 

Though I quite like these: http://www.greenlaunches.com/other-stuff/power-lines-turn-creative-with-humanshaped-pylons.php 

It's a page not found A.

[Dishevelled Den]

it always comes down to money....

If there was NO other option but to lay them in the ground....it'd be done.

Yes, I remember that suggestion being made a while ago and someone from the distribution network knocking it back citing the financial implications. 

There was also some technical reason given concerning maintenance where subterranean installations were to be widely adopted.

[Jimbob]

just remove the ; from the end of the url, smilies at the end cause this

[Broomies Mate]

Fair point, well made 

Though I quite like these: http://www.greenlaunches.com/other-stuff/power-lines-turn-creative-with-humanshaped-pylons.php 

It's a page not found A.

Link fixed for you

http://www.greenlaunches.com/other-stuff/power-lines-turn-creative-with-humanshaped-pylons.php

Emoticon at the end of the link buggered it. 

[Varche]

it always comes down to money....

If there was NO other option but to lay them in the ground....it'd be done.

Yes, I remember that suggestion being made a while ago and someone from the distribution network knocking it back citing the financial implications. 

There was also some technical reason given concerning maintenance where subterranean installations were to be widely adopted.

It is said to be 15 times the cost of pylons. It hasn't stopped lines being run underground elsewhere in the UK already. To my mind there is a gross amount of negligence in allowing any more pylons. What planet are these planners living on? (sic). They are needed to add the new power stations onto the grid. Fine factor the cost in then.

[Marks DTM Calib]

The transmission losses associated with buried cables are much greater than those suspended from pylons.

If you want to be 'green' then keep them where they are

[Dishevelled Den]

Fair point, well made 

Though I quite like these: http://www.greenlaunches.com/other-stuff/power-lines-turn-creative-with-humanshaped-pylons.php 

It's a page not found A.

Link fixed for you

http://www.greenlaunches.com/other-stuff/power-lines-turn-creative-with-humanshaped-pylons.php

Emoticon at the end of the link buggered it. 

Thanks R. 8-)

[Dishevelled Den]

The transmission losses associated with buried cables are much greater than those suspended from pylons.

If you want to be 'green' then keep them where they are

Is this down to additional materials /equipment needed to render subterranean distribution safe?

[Dishevelled Den]

Fair point, well made 

Though I quite like these: http://www.greenlaunches.com/other-stuff/power-lines-turn-creative-with-humanshaped-pylons.php 

They are striking - no doubt.

[CaptainZok]

The last sentence of that report gets me.

And here’s a better touch to it. Owing to the fact that these giant people look pretty human-like, birds will sure stay away from these power lines which mean a sure and electrifying death.

So how do birds get electrocuted then?