If they were painted green those would be even better. I opposed these and signed the petition, as they pass near to where I live.
I'm not sure where in East Anglia you lived, but most of it is a hell of a lot better than Birmingham or Glasgow.
If you were up in the air looking down then green would be a good colour, they’d blend in. However you tend to be on the ground looking up. Therefore grey to match a normal British sky is probably correct.
I know a group of industrial sized chimneys that started out plain silver/grey metal. Complaints from the neighbours. After some discussion between all parties, they were painted to blend in better. It didn't work. They went back to the original plain metal.
Grey also gives better visibility to pilots who might be making an emergency landing with an engine failure or who might be carrying out low level flights for a variety of reason ( air ambulances for a start ).
As A side issue, when I worked at Rugeley Power Station, if there was a problem with the chimney navigation lights we had to phone the Duty Controller at Manchester Airport (this was then later changed to Birmingham Airport).
Presumably the dotted section on map that was linked.
Curiously, though, these nationally important projects never seem to need to go through Kensington or Westminster - or Sandringham or Balmoral come to that.
Have you ever heard the noise from the 400kv Supergrid wires during damp & foggy weather? If so you wouldn’t want them passing anywhere near your house.
Indeed but the proposed routing keeps clear of housing but then ends up in rural areas and people don't like the visual impact!
Kensington has the Westway and Westminster has the super sewer going in now, so not the best examples :P
If you mean the Tideway, the only bit of it that runs through Westminster will be neatly buried under the Thames foreshore. If they did the same in East Anglia with the electricity cables no-one would be complaining.
They've already outlined what the new grid will look like if they are to connect all the planned windfarms. They also placed contracts last week for the first of the HVDC Eastern Green links from Peterhead to Drax so might be a press release to promote that.
I'd personally favour the French "sleeping cat" design...
Can’t say I know those. A quick google produced feline related electrical hazards.
As a cat person I find those most agreeable.
I believe he was talking about the fens and South Lincolnshire. Not really indicative of the scenery of East Anglia as a whole.
You’ll get that buzzing sound whatever type of pylons are used, it‘s a discharge from the conductors into surrounding air that causes it.
Won't the buzzing just be 50hz hum, the "crackling" will be discharge, the 33kV lines on wooden pylons that go through work can be quite loud when it's damp.
