Thursday 16 January 2014

A Lot of Pylons on Teeside

This is the view from Saltholme nature reserve. There is an amazing large substation and more pylons than you can count.
 
 
Here is the Seal Sands petrochemical works which must use a lot of power and on the left of the picture the box-like building is the Hartlepool nuclear power station.

 
I measured the distance between pylons behind my house on a map. They were 250m apart. Today I timed as the car drove parallel to a power line. It took 16 seconds at a speed of about 80 km per hour. That would make these pylons 300m apart. Perhaps bigger pylons have a different spacing.