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- They say they statically and electrically verified, but say with the stag design. But are there reasons on the main tower the lines other than structural efficiency that they are set vertically on each side? With the stag they are spread out horizontally and I'm wondering if that has implications like much harder to service the lines by helicopter.by cma
- Austria has a long tradition of making infrastructure attractive: from railway stations to electric substations.
- Amazing! Let's hope we get these in the U.S.
One thing that seemed ambiguous in the article: are these actually installed? The APG website [1] says "Two Austrian Power Giants — one in the shape of a stork and the other of a stag — were pre-tested statically and electrotechnically to verify their technical feasibility." So are the images just renderings?
by next_xibalba - These sculptures are beautiful, I wish there was a way for public infrastructure to get more love (part of that love is building it quickly) in America.by mips_avatar
- Something similar was previously proposed in Iceland
https://grapevine.is/news/2015/10/16/these-human-shaped-pylo...
by flaboonka - In Estonia a couple have been built.
https://balticguide.ee/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Soorebane-...
by jnsaff2 - Great, lets make transmission even more expensive. I can imagine the engineers having a field day maintaining one-off tower designs. How about using a simple white or light blue pole tower that blends in more.
The stag is cool but the bird is not.
by ishtanbul - The images are generated because it's a concept only:
> This is a design concept and no concrete implementation is currently planned.
https://www.apg.at/en/projects/austrian-power-giants-1/
They don't say whether their design takes practical concerns into account and preserve the functional aspects that gave the pylons their current shape.
by fweimer