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Posted by Geekette 7 days ago

Austria: Pylons as sculpture for public acceptance of expanding electrification(www.goodgoodgood.co)
125 points | 55 commentspage 2
Animats 3 days ago|
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...

empiricus 2 days ago||
This looks nice, but somebody should pay the difference, and maybe it should be those that oppose the normal looking supports.
itronitron 3 days ago||
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.

aramattamara 3 days ago||
Have they tried burying the cables? Yes, it's more expensive, but if they care so much about the views...
robjeiter 3 days ago|
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 2 days ago||
Surely Increased amount of small to medium solar installations would reduce the need for major transmission lines even more?
earthnail 3 days ago|||
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 3 days ago||
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.
nixass 3 days ago||
> If only Austria would do nuclear

Now you're just talking crazy.

People, we have crazy over here

/s