This person makes really beautiful digital art that features a lot of power lines. I think it's really cool. Example:
While they do affect the skyline, i find them kind of a great. Its like wind turbines, they serve a very easy to understand purpose and exist for everyone while having only little environmental impact and lasting a lomg ass time. Compared to infrastructure like starlink which will only ever serve a few people, obstructs the entire sky for everyone from any angle and will only function for a few(5) years before having to be replaced.
while having only little environmental impact
If they’re properly maintained… fucking PG&E!
I can't find the exact shot, but I used to have a picture of the 220kV lines parallel to the Desert Road as my desktop background. Something like this:https://johnmathews.smugmug.com/Nov-18-Desert-Road-North-Island/i-CkSm5tK
I think the long distance transmission lines are kind of neat. They often become roosts for hawks and eagles here, gives you a chance to see some nature near the city.
The linked comic is ugly as sin though, that's a high voltage rat nest. And I'm sure there's a happy medium to be found with that sort of electrical pole, but it doesn't give me the feeling of serenity that the high tension towers do.
Underground transformers seem to be the better approach for denser connectivity
Overhead transmission lines are so 1950s.
Invest in your country.
Japan is earthquake country so they get a pass.
India however...
Japan is slowly burying all their overhead lines into the sidewalks. A lot of urban streets look so much nicer now than they did 10 years ago.
It’s probably no worse in an earthquake than the water mains, which would inherently be a lot more rigid than cables with intentional slack built into every segment.
Investing on your country would be connecting more people to electricity not make the sky look better
Yes im encouraged by seeing them use those machines to put things in the ground. I had not realized how effiicient it had gotten. May be cheaper than the poles hanging now.
Still about a 10x cost difference, plus (particularly on transmission lines) there's issues with extra capacitive loading.
Interestingly, underground lines aren't feasible in my hometown because of how close the water table is to the surface. Any trench deep enough to bury cables in would have to worry about flooding with groundwater or saltwater in some places.
The water table is so high that not only are there many places where basements would flood 100% of the year, but the majority of homes still have septic tanks instead of town sewage lines, and you can find houses where the lawn has been raised up with 3 or 4 feet of concrete to raise the septic tank to comply with modern regulations to avoid contaminating the groundwater supply.
Interestingly, underground lines aren't feasible in my hometown because of how close the water table is to the surface.
I’m 4 meters below sea level. We don’t have basements because the buoyancy of the empty space would cause the houses to literally float on ground water. But we do have buried power lines.
You are being lied to.
Powerlines are cool and they make great framing for art
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/m6wdjr/twenty_skies/
If I'm gonna be entirely honest, I think power lines are really nice looking. I even have them as my phones wallpaper. Maybe it's just because I have a interest in infrastructure or something, idk
I know it's a very unpopular opinion but I actually like the aesthetics of infrastructure and industry.
When I see a steel mill, an oil rig or powerplants like wind parks, hydro- or nuclear power I am reminded of the human ingenuity that went into it. How many people needed to band together to work on something bigger than their tribe. I am reminded of our awe inspiring power to shape our environment completely.
Of course with great power... You know the rest.
Not as bad as cars everywhere
This but unironically.
Fuck appeals to nature.
Honestly, to me the ironic part is the power lines in this artwork are unappealing to me because of the artist not the subject matter. It seems they don't know what all the lines are or where they go or how they work, so when I look at it and do know what it's supposed to look like, this just looks like a mess that makes zero sense. The artist has created some sort of electrical fire hazard.
I actually kind of enjoy powerlines and junction boxes. There's a level of engineering that is both rough and delicate that is magnified by how orderly and chaotic they are alike.
Now if the power lines are at the expense of a view through trees, that'd be more a bummer. Likewise if the trees remain that's a hazard waiting to happen, which is also a bummer.
Buried lines and conduit pipe are preferable in most cases and share similar aesthetic characteristics.
Have it run underground. Safer for all parts.
Somewhere. Somewhere Japan
Do you guys like having power? Lol
In civilized countries we tend to bury them
/j
I know it only makes sense in urban to semi-urban environments to run power underground
Power lines blocking sky, Japan: 😍😍😍😍
I weirdly don't mind
I think clean power lines look nice. I'd definitely prefer them to a butterfly killing roadway or lighted poles that create light pollution and confuse wildlife.
Oh. I guess they could take the sky from me.
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Check out the photography by Alex Hyner for some amazing skies between the power lines
Yes
But
not getting power
Put it in the ground
And have to dig up even more earth using even more big machines? If you did a 50ft power line underground, that's 50 ft of earth that has to be dug up, not to mention what happens whenever something inevitably goes wrong and you have to dig it all up again. Then you also have to bury transformers, which means you need to cool them.
There's many, many good reasons that we use power lines over burying them. Mostly, power lines are so significantly cheaper and easier that it's not even comparable. I've seen the bill when a buried fiber line gets broken. It is crazy expensive.
i don't know of a single town here that has overhead power lines in populated areas. those are for long-distance transmission only.
or, okay, i know of one. but that's because there's a steel mill and a hydropower plant there, and you don't wan to bury lines that carry that around of energy.
Gainax AF.
The highways are even worse.
Yes
Only in backwater countries that still use those antique washing lines that break with every instance of bad weather.
It’s cheaper to repair them all the time than it is to dig to repair them occasionally
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