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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 pm Posts: 6355 Location: IoW
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13473408I know it's silly, but I like how they each have a slightly different stance.
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belchingmatt
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Joined: Fri May 15, 2009 3:16 am Posts: 6146 Location: Middle Earth
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Or we could just bury them underground.
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Well it is really expensive to do that and would be prohibatively impractical.
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Mon May 23, 2011 5:26 pm |
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adidan
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:43 pm Posts: 5048
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But we'd never have to worry about them being knocked down or freezing up. Save some money that way.
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Mon May 23, 2011 5:56 pm |
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rustybucket
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Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:10 pm Posts: 5837
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Instead we'd have to worry about: - the insulator perishing (for solid insulators)
- the gas escaping (for gas tube systems)
- how to navigate around the vast amount of often undocumented infrastructure that's already in the ground
- how to route other services e.g. telephones that currently piggy-back the grid
- what to do if you hit a feature of archaeological or historic interest
- how to navigate around the difficult, unworkable ground eg. steep slopes, marshland, flood plains where large chunks of the network are currently sited
- how to compensate the thousands of farmers whose fields would be dug up or unproductive for several years when they should contain crops or animals
- what to do in delicate ecosystems e.g. moorland, fens that will take decades or centuries to recover
- paying for CPOs on the myriad properties that would have to be demolished
- how would this affect planning regulations?
- what to do when you need to replace the cable
- what to do when you need to increase capacity on a certain link
- possible electro-magnetic effects on electrical systems nearby
- each and every dozy twonk with access to a JCB, tractor, piledriver or shovel
To be honest the many billions it would cost sounds like a lot of money, time, destruction and effort to spend on a marginal improvement in efficiency and a massive reduction in flexibility. Besides which, an increase in local renewables and microgeneration should reduce the grid load, not increase it. Can't see the point myself - especially not when we can't afford nurses, police or care assistants.
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Mon May 23, 2011 7:42 pm |
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Amnesia10
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I had the idea some years ago of building a trench with all the utilities in so that entry could be via a man hole and no need to dig up the road again when one utility wanted to do maintenance. They could just enter the tunnel and do everything underground. It would cost more but since everthing could be using the same tunnel it could have benefits, certainly far fewer road works.
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Mon May 23, 2011 7:57 pm |
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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That Nikolai Tesla - now there's a man with the right ideas.
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Mon May 23, 2011 8:01 pm |
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:36 pm Posts: 5161 Location: /dev/tty0
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What happens if they all come alive?
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Mon May 23, 2011 8:33 pm |
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adidan
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:43 pm Posts: 5048
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You have to go and spoil it all with frakkin logical talk now don't you. Jeez, can't even waffle sh!te anymore. 
_________________ Fogmeister I ventured into Solitude but didn't really do much. jonbwfc I was behind her in a queue today - but I wouldn't describe it as 'bushy'.
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Mon May 23, 2011 8:48 pm |
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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:10 pm Posts: 5837
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Yep - it's a bad habit. My brother says that he and I have a disability in that we both feel the need for logical coherence. edit: just finished a huge row with my mother about the right to privacy. 
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Linux_User
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Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm Posts: 7173
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I don't like the "pretty" pylons, especially the giant human shaped ones. Standard ones FTW. 
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Mon May 23, 2011 11:31 pm |
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dogbert10
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:23 pm Posts: 638 Location: 3959 miles from the centre of the Earth - give or take a bit
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Why not just build smaller "local" power stations, that way you'd need fewer pylons. you could build them next to landfill sites and combine them with a recycling plant to sort out all the combustible waste, plus methane from the stuff already buried.
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Tue May 24, 2011 6:45 am |
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adidan
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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I have to limit conversations with my mum, she reads the Fail and can't understand why people always mock it...
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Amnesia10
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I agree but too many NIMBY's plus these pylons are apparently for windfarms etc.
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Tue May 24, 2011 8:54 am |
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forquare1
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Would smaller stations not be more inefficient?
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