Using the official data from Government sources and some basic topographical knowledge it is easy to calculate that the number of pylons required to collect electricity from any windfarm will be anything from four to 20 times the number required to collect the same amount of electricity from a conventional coal, gas, or nuclear power station.
Obviously the more remote the windfarm the greater the number of pylons constructed and the greater the distance the pylon line has to cover.
The environmental devastation is, therefore, not limited to just the windfarm site itself but is also distributed over the much wider area between the windfarm and the centres of population which it is supposed to serve.
The true cost of using windfarms
Using the official data from Government sources and some basic topographical knowledge it is easy to calculate that the number of pylons required to collect electricity from any windfarm will be anything from four to 20 times the number required to collect the same amount of electricity from a conventional coal, gas, or nuclear power station.
Obviously the more remote the windfarm the greater the number of pylons constructed and the greater the distance the pylon line has to cover.
The environmental devastation is, therefore, not limited to just the windfarm site itself but is also distributed over the much wider area between the windfarm and the centres of population which it is supposed to serve.
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