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New pylons for green energy - controversy?

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D20 · 07/10/2024 08:05

I read about the many miles of new pylons that will have to be built to transfer green energy from wind farms to the grid. I’m not in the regions affected. I’m in the industrial North so it did read as not in my back yard thinking. I mean I probably wouldn’t like it if my back yard suddenly got a whacking great pylon in it but it will benefit them as well as others. Is there controversy over it or is the DM just trying to create one?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13907243/Pylon-wars-Locals-absolutely-devastated-plans-87-MILE-pylon-highway-stretching-Grimsby-Essex-tower-homes-affected.html Top marks for the use of the word despoiled. Not one you see often. Pylon wars headline a bit rubbish imho.

Locals 'absolutely devastated' at plans for 87-MILE pylon highway

EXCLUSIVE: Officials want to install a vast new network of lines snaking from Grimsby down to Tilbury in Essex as part of a plan dubbed 'The Great Grid Upgrade'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13907243/Pylon-wars-Locals-absolutely-devastated-plans-87-MILE-pylon-highway-stretching-Grimsby-Essex-tower-homes-affected.html

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slackademic · 07/10/2024 09:35

So exactly how do people think they transfer electrical current from the source, where it is generated, to the consumers? Magic? Burying cables is both fraught with problems and very expensive. If people object to local generation schemes, how do they expect to be part of the national grid?

I'm not even going to click on a link to the DM.

Not going to vote either - what a dumb pair of options.

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