[HN Gopher] Can electricity pylons ever be beautiful?
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Can electricity pylons ever be beautiful?
Author : gdrift
Score : 26 points
Date : 2023-11-21 12:32 UTC (10 hours ago)
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| fnord77 wrote:
| "No."
| mchanson wrote:
| I kinda like all of them. My kid, when they were little, starting
| calling them robots. e.g. "Dad, look at that robot!"
| AnonCoward42 wrote:
| Yeah the articles premise is already speculation, but phrased
| as a fact.
|
| > Most people seem to view electricity pylons as a blight -
| ugly landmarks towering over the landscape.
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| I don't view them as ugly either. There is some beauty in truly
| functional design imo.
| smegsicle wrote:
| that law of headlines is safe if those images are anything to go
| by
|
| the one with the color panels would look fine if they removed the
| color panels
| xanderlewis wrote:
| For those who are unfamiliar:
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
| CharlesW wrote:
| As a kid, I was awed by these stick-figure mechs. I suppose
| beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
| Prickle wrote:
| I was fully expecting cost or safety being an issue, but I did
| not expect this: (Specifically for the "Land of Giants" project.)
|
| > A proposal in Norway faltered after a local mayor - spotting
| the visitor attraction potential of the structures - agreed they
| could be built in his town, as long as they weren't built
| anywhere else in the country.
|
| Quite sad that alternative shaped (?) Pylons do exist, and some
| of them are really neat; yet are hampered by politics.
| kazinator wrote:
| I took a look; Betteridge's Law holds up here.
|
| The most important thing is to make them all the same as much as
| possible so that people who have to maintain them don't have to
| deal with annoying variations.
| twobitshifter wrote:
| I love this idea. Look at The Sejourne Viaduct for a strong case
| of beauty in infrastructure.
| https://c8.alamy.com/comp/K6YGA0/france-pyrenees-orientales-...
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| People decry the loss of views in suburbs when a train might run
| next to the freeway. They hear train tracks and think ugly. But
| we can build sightly infrastructure that does not detract from
| the world's most beautiful places.
| exabrial wrote:
| I think the harder you try, the more it becomes an eyesore. My
| favorite are Corten steel (a self protecting steel that rusts a
| nice natural red color) pylons personally... They just look
| "right" in a landscape, or at least as much as you can for humans
| planting wind turbines everywhere.
| Clamchop wrote:
| I just kind of generally like the aesthetics of infrastructure,
| but I can see why others would think utility pylons are ugly.
| crazygringo wrote:
| A++ for creativity! (But still no.)
|
| It makes me wonder: all underground power lines are still laid by
| digging up the ground, laying them down, and then filling the
| dirt back in. Which is super-expensive. Right?
|
| Are we trying to develop any technology for "microboring" in
| tunnels through dirt and clay, and maybe bedrock when
| occasionally necessary? E.g. just a two-inch diameter tube or
| something, that's even able to go underneath rivers and things?
| Solely for laying underground wires?
|
| I dream of a world without electricity pylons...
| freitzkriesler2 wrote:
| Yes but you must construct additional pylons.
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