Although underground cables maintains the visual appearance of the landscape, they actually have a much bigger impact on nature due to the need to dig a big wide trench along the whole route compared to transmission towers every few hundred metres. Also I think they're less electrically efficient because of the dielectric properties of wet soil vs air.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
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We're pretty good at it in general. And the land will heal. Skye should have been made a national park instead of Galloway (wasn't!)