New power lines and pylons

[chaffcutter]

Is anyone on here particularly affected by the planned new grid system? Big spread in the MoS about it in the prettier areas of the country, are they not being very thoughtful of positioning the pylons re houses etc?

 

[grumpy]

anyone who objects to new power lines or wind turbines should be forcefully ejected from their house and made to live in a cave with 2 sticks to rub together,

 

[Hilly]

anyone who objects to new power lines or wind turbines should be forcefully ejected from their house and made to live in a cave with 2 sticks to rub together,

I agree with power lines, but I think water turbines would be better than wind, and you aint going to get me living in a cave im to accustomed to my palace now.

 

[Baker9]

If its in the Mail it must be true.
And Grumpy why give them two sticks, give them f all, better still send them to Canada at the moment to live in a cave with a wind chill of -50C.

 

[GTB]

Is anyone on here particularly affected by the planned new grid system? Big spread in the MoS about it in the prettier areas of the country, are they not being very thoughtful of positioning the pylons re houses etc?

We're being affected because the 'good' people of Powys are objecting to the proposed new power lines coming in from the Oswestry area towards Newtown. Our hill land is in the Tan 8 area where the Welsh Govt favour windfarm development but without power lines to take the power away we're f***ed !

 

[grumpy]

I agree with power lines, but I think water turbines would be better than wind, and you aint going to get me living in a cave im to accustomed to my palace now.

if you have an empty belly you have only one problem in the world,if you have a fully belly you worry about every problem in the world.i detest nimbys with a passion they are the lowest form of life on the planet.

 

[Hilly]

I agree, but I think water turbines should have been pushed over wind, saying that if the money was right I would have a wind t.

 

[chaffcutter]

@GTB so you actually need the new lines to come closer to your ground to make turbines viable? If it's a favoured area for the turbines surely that should be a given

 

[Exfarmer]

Water turbines are great, if you have enough, valleys to flood to feed them
There is very few areas of England with power to run anything but domestic turbines.
The average water mill was about 10 - 20 horsepower ie 7.5 - 15 Kw

 

[grumpy]

im going to invest in dark energy as every one on here knows that is what 90% of every thing is.

 

[Kevtherev]

Why can't existing dams be converted to hydro all that wasted energy when the water flows to Liverpool or Birmingham?

 

[Hilly]

Water turbines are great, if you have enough, valleys to flood to feed them
There is very few areas of England with power to run anything but domestic turbines.
The average water mill was about 10 - 20 horsepower ie 7.5 - 15 Kw

Loads of places in Scotland then there is the lakedistrict and every town is built near a river, ive never been to wales but I bet there is a lot of potential there as well

 

[Blue.]

Loads of places in Scotland then there is the lakedistrict and every town is built near a river, ive never been to wales but I bet there is a lot of potential there as well

We have a few redundant mills now kitting out with hydro,always lots of water falling in lancs.

 

[Exfarmer]

Loads of places in Scotland then there is the lakedistrict and every town is built near a river, ive never been to wales but I bet there is a lot of potential there as well

Sadly we do not have the volumes and or the height to get any realistic hydro power.
The water from Wales to the English cities only has enough power to drive itself to its destination.
And we know how keen the Welsh are, on flooding Welsh valleys to Feed England with water yet alone Electricity
I think it is Y Fan Wen who knows the figures

 

[topground]

Apparently there were a significant number of mills on the Winford Brook and River Chew in the century before last, all using the same water. I don't understand why the locations used in the past cannot be fitted with hydro electric kit.

 

[multi power]

Loads of places in Scotland then there is the lakedistrict and every town is built near a river, ive never been to wales but I bet there is a lot of potential there as well

well i can assure you there is plenty of water here

 

[Hilly]

Sadly we do not have the volumes and or the height to get any realistic hydro power.
The water from Wales to the English cities only has enough power to drive itself to its destination.
And we know how keen the Welsh are, on flooding Welsh valleys to Feed England with water yet alone Electricity
I think it is Y Fan Wen who knows the figures

Good opportunity for us on the right side of the border to sell you some expensive electricity then !!

 

[Hilly]

We have a few redundant mills now kitting out with hydro,always lots of water falling in lancs.

All them old mills in Lancashire could surley churn a bit of juice out, if a water wheel used to power tham huge mills surley they could turn a turbine ? every river in the uk could have several turbines on it.

 

[llamedos]

most of them old mills have either been raised to the ground, or turned into des res for nimbys, the others sit nowhere near a water course and were run on coal fired boilers with nothing more than a pond for the steam.

 

[GTB]

@GTB so you actually need the new lines to come closer to your ground to make turbines viable? If it's a favoured area for the turbines surely that should be a given

Yes SSE are keen to go ahead with a huge windfarm in our area but without powerlines it's dead in the water.

Also had solar company interested in another site but again grid capacity was the stumbling block. More investment needed by National Grid asap I'm afraid, trouble is they expect the developers to finance it all.