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Posted by Geekette 10/28/2025

Austria: Pylons as sculpture for public acceptance of expanding electrification(www.goodgoodgood.co)
125 points | 56 commentspage 2
Animats 11/1/2025|
This might be worthwhile for special situations, such as river and canyon crossings. There, the towers are huge and the spans are long.[1]

Those super-tall towers are one-off designs and striking structures. Just putting a stork-shaped tower in the middle of a long line in open terrain looks silly.

[1] https://transmissionlineworld.blogspot.com/2020/08/worlds-ta...

itronitron 11/1/2025||
Nice, they could put a sled after the 6th deer.

My only concern is that a lot of people would probably be more inclined to play on them than the standard high-voltage pylons.

empiricus 11/2/2025||
This looks nice, but somebody should pay the difference, and maybe it should be those that oppose the normal looking supports.
aramattamara 11/1/2025||
Have they tried burying the cables? Yes, it's more expensive, but if they care so much about the views...
robjeiter 11/1/2025|
If only Austria would do nuclear than the grid would not need an expansion and electricity would be way cheaper. Or alternatively fracking could be used to increase the domestic gas production. There are plenty of reserves.
Jolter 11/2/2025||
Surely Increased amount of small to medium solar installations would reduce the need for major transmission lines even more?
earthnail 11/1/2025|||
And where exactly does Austria plan to dump its nuclear waste? Which beautiful mountain should become unclimbable?

Nuclear waste storage has way higher public acceptance problems than power cables.

herewulf 11/2/2025||
You took the wrong bait. Fracking is far worse for mountains than the relatively tiny amount of impact that nuclear waste has. Look it up.
earthnail 11/14/2025||
I don’t disagree. But good luck explaining that to the general public.
nixass 11/1/2025||
> If only Austria would do nuclear

Now you're just talking crazy.

People, we have crazy over here

/s