While the overhead power lines would cost $152 million, by the government's estimate, Mr. Borgen of Statnett says a combination of an underwater cable and high tension lines would cost four times as much.
Electric and magnetic fields (EMF) are generated by the transmission of electricity through high tension lines traversing rural areas.
All eight of the island's high tension lines were affected.
They are tender as well toward the bleached blue California sky, the scrubby hills and high tension lines, the abandoned houses and secret creek-sides, housing tracts built to create an illusion of affluence, and the ironic desolation of an abandoned miniature golf course.
Also on Saturday, Syria's state news agency said a problem with a high-tension line caused a power failure in Damascus and southern Syria, The Associated Press reported.
Gemasolar, with a 19.9-megawatt turbine, started supplying electricity this year through a high-tension line to a substation in Villanueva del Rey.
The manager said to Sara, "How did you know that?" He went on to say that the balloon had not actually landed on the building but on a high-tension line carrying power to the reactor.
The first hurdle was the electricity utility, which said it would install the necessary supply only if he paid for a new high-tension line for the whole district, at a cost of $20,000.
Eventually the region will supply its own electric power from the dams, but for the interim period a high-tension line, the first anywhere in Iran, has been put in over the 72 miles from Abadan to Ahwaz--a city of 120,000 people that had no power source before.
So it is not surprising that they are firmly against the latest development hereabouts, the construction of a huge high-tension line from hydroelectric plants in the mountains above the fjords to cities on the coast, particularly Bergen, the country's second largest.
