{"id":6085,"date":"2015-09-16T21:05:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T20:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=6085"},"modified":"2015-09-16T21:05:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T20:05:15","slug":"pylons-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=6085","title":{"rendered":"Pylons to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/PylonHorizon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6088 size-medium\" title=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:PylonHorizon.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/PylonHorizon-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"PylonHorizon\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/PylonHorizon-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/PylonHorizon.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a nice little story I have found, pylons are to be removed from at least some national parks.\u00a0 National grid has found some money (\u00a3500 million) to do this in England and Wales.\u00a0 (In Scotland two of the big six own the grid.)\u00a0\u00a0 The pylons will be removed in favour of sections of cable and the lucky places are New Forest, Peak district and Snowdonia.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhc.co.uk\/dinorwig.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Dinorwig<\/a> pumped storage scheme which sits in the middle of Snowdonia shows what can be done. What is so impressive about this scheme is that you would hardly know it was there.\u00a0 Due to its location in Snowdonia the power station was built in the middle of a mountain and its entrance is where a slate quarry was.\u00a0 In addition the transmission lines are buried underground for around 6 miles as cables rather than as pylons.\u00a0 This shows what can be done although replacing the entire national grid with cables rather than pylons would cost hundreds of billions of pounds.\u00a0 Recently NG has been trying a number of different designs out although even with some of these new look pylons they\u00a0 could be intrusive.<\/p>\n<p>I personally don&#8217;t dislike pylons excessively although I cannot see any from where I live.\u00a0 The only time I notice them is when they get in my frame for a picture.\u00a0 This only happens in places of great beauty of course&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a nice little story I have found, pylons are to be removed from at least some national parks.\u00a0 National grid has found some money (\u00a3500 million) to do this in England and Wales.\u00a0 (In Scotland two of the big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=6085\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-6085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pylons"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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