Anyone here an expert in utility-level power transport and can comment on this part?
> Maar Ventilus is ook opgezet om als back-up te dienen voor een andere hoogspanningslijn vanuit de windmolenparken (Stevin) én als versterking van het elektriciteitsnet, om bijvoorbeeld pannes op te vangen. Dat laatste kan enkel als je de stroom van richting kunt veranderen op de lijnen en daarvoor zijn bovengrondse lijnen meer geschikt.
I know some electronics and physics but fail to see why changing the direction of current makes above-ground powerlines more suitable than below ground ones.
Perhaps it’s just that above ground are easier to change and to add taps?
How deep would a power line need to be buried before the magnetic fields aren’t as big of an issue anymore compared to above-ground lines? Because if they bury it a metre under the ground next to your property, your entire protest action seems a bit useless.
Not that I think the magnetic fields are an actual concern, IMO it is mostly a bunch of NIMBY’s not wanting to have their view “ruined” by a powerline.
Just buy the houses of the people living there that want to move, and give them some extra money for the inconvenience. That’s way cheaper than all these procedures and time loss.
I realise it’s annoying having to move, but we just can’t have a couple of people hold back these infrastructure works that benefit the other 11 million Belgians.
The only argument against above-ground cables, is the minute statistical increase in some cancers for those living very close to the cables. But despite research no one has found those cables to be the cause.
But even if they were, I honestly don’t think that should be a reason to stop those cables. Every day, everyone accepts thousands of types of cancer-causing risks. Risks of which we 100% know that that they cause cancer.
So I propose we help out the people living around that area, that can prove they: don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t use any kind of radiation-spreading device (like a microwave), don’t use any kind of wireless signal, don’t use gas, only eat and drink guaranteed biological, pest/herb-icide free, don’t ever use any type of car or transportation except a classic bike, are not living close to a road or ever go into any kind of densely populated area, are never exposed to little/much to the sun,….
All of these people should get a million euro so they can relocate somewhere else. Anyone else just gets the rolling eyes emoji.
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Anyone here an expert in utility-level power transport and can comment on this part?
> Maar Ventilus is ook opgezet om als back-up te dienen voor een andere hoogspanningslijn vanuit de windmolenparken (Stevin) én als versterking van het elektriciteitsnet, om bijvoorbeeld pannes op te vangen. Dat laatste kan enkel als je de stroom van richting kunt veranderen op de lijnen en daarvoor zijn bovengrondse lijnen meer geschikt.
I know some electronics and physics but fail to see why changing the direction of current makes above-ground powerlines more suitable than below ground ones.
Perhaps it’s just that above ground are easier to change and to add taps?
How deep would a power line need to be buried before the magnetic fields aren’t as big of an issue anymore compared to above-ground lines? Because if they bury it a metre under the ground next to your property, your entire protest action seems a bit useless.
Not that I think the magnetic fields are an actual concern, IMO it is mostly a bunch of NIMBY’s not wanting to have their view “ruined” by a powerline.
Just buy the houses of the people living there that want to move, and give them some extra money for the inconvenience. That’s way cheaper than all these procedures and time loss.
I realise it’s annoying having to move, but we just can’t have a couple of people hold back these infrastructure works that benefit the other 11 million Belgians.
The only argument against above-ground cables, is the minute statistical increase in some cancers for those living very close to the cables. But despite research no one has found those cables to be the cause.
But even if they were, I honestly don’t think that should be a reason to stop those cables. Every day, everyone accepts thousands of types of cancer-causing risks. Risks of which we 100% know that that they cause cancer.
So I propose we help out the people living around that area, that can prove they: don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t use any kind of radiation-spreading device (like a microwave), don’t use any kind of wireless signal, don’t use gas, only eat and drink guaranteed biological, pest/herb-icide free, don’t ever use any type of car or transportation except a classic bike, are not living close to a road or ever go into any kind of densely populated area, are never exposed to little/much to the sun,….
All of these people should get a million euro so they can relocate somewhere else. Anyone else just gets the rolling eyes emoji.