Name: 人們會對鐵塔感到憤怒。 (People are going to be angry about pylons.)
Uploaded: 2025-06-17T15:14:51.000Z
Duration: 7 min 18 s

The technical term for these things is transmission towers, but here in Britain, we call them pylons.

這些東西的專業術語是輸電塔，但在英國，我們稱之為鐵塔。

And we've got tens of thousands of them across the country.

我們在全國各地有成千上萬個這樣的機構。

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The first national grid was built in the interwar years, and it was the largest peacetime construction project Britain had ever seen, a single power network across the country.

第一個國家電網是在戰時建成的，它是英國和平時期最大的建設項目，是一個橫跨全國的單一電網。

Pylons became part of the landscape of Britain, just as they had around the world, despite the objections of many landowners, traditionalists, and poets.

儘管遭到許多土地所有者、傳統主義者和詩人的反對，但鐵塔已成為英國景觀的一部分，就像它們在世界各地一樣。

These exist because overhead lines are a fraction of the price of underground cables, and they're much, much easier and faster to maintain.

之所以存在這些問題，是因為架空線路的價格僅為地下電纜的一小部分，而且維護起來也更加方便快捷。

If there's a fault, you don't need to bring in heavy equipment and dig anything up.

如果出現故障，您不需要使用重型設備挖掘任何東西。

Instead, you dispatch a team to climb, and that team will have learned the job here at the National Grid Training Centre near Ekring in the East Midlands.

相反，您會派遣一支團隊進行攀爬，而這支團隊將在東米德蘭郡埃克林附近的國家電網培訓中心學習這項工作。

And today, one of those teams is going to take me up on the wires.

而今天，其中一支隊伍將接受我的邀請。

So here at the training centre, we have over 300 graduates and apprentices training in overhead lines and substation technologies.

是以，在培訓中心，我們有 300 多名畢業生和學徒接受架空線路和變電站技術培訓。

The team that have trained here will undertake a range of roles.

在這裡接受過培訓的團隊將承擔一系列職責。

They might be overhead line operators, so they'll be climbing towers, responding to faults.

他們可能是架空線路操作員，是以要爬塔，處理故障。

We have a team of drone and helicopter pilots that keep the network operating.

我們有一支由無人機和直升機飛行員組成的團隊，負責保障網絡的運行。

And then we have substation teams as well, so they would look at cleaning and replacing different equipment within our substations.

此外，我們還有變電站小組，他們負責清潔和更換變電站內的不同設備。

I haven't looked at any point out or down to see how high I am.

我還沒有從任何一個點向外或向下看我有多高。

I'm just kind of going, there's the next bolt, there's the next bolt.

我只是在想，下一個螺栓在那裡，下一個螺栓在那裡。

And I'm aware that the professionals are doing this much faster than me.

我也知道，專業人士在這方面做得比我快得多。

We have a team of 2,400 people that monitor and operate, maintain the network around the clock, 24-7.

我們擁有一支由 2400 人組成的團隊，全天候監控、運行和維護網絡。

This might be in response to weather or faults on the network, and they keep the energy flowing.

這可能是為了應對天氣變化或網絡故障，它們能保持能源流動。

Presumably, you're up here in all weathers.

據推測，你在這裡是風雨無阻的。

In emergencies, we're definitely working bad weather.

在緊急情況下，我們肯定會在惡劣天氣下工作。

You just take one more step up.  We'll attach you onto the actual tower.

你再往上走一步  我們會把你接到真正的塔上

Yep, bottom phase, middle phase, top phase.

是的，底部階段、中部階段、頂部階段。

Huh, it's different phase of power on each arm?

咦，每隻手臂上的動力階段都不一樣？

Right, that makes sense, because otherwise the three would kind of interact with each other on the wires.

對，這就說得通了，不然的話，三者就會在電線上相互影響。

Each pylon weighs approximately 30 tonnes, 4,500 miles of overhead line, and 900 miles of underground cable.

每個塔架重約 30 噸，架空線路長 4500 英里，地下電纜長 900 英里。

Because we're at our training school, we've got all different combinations of wires in different formations.

因為在我們的訓練學校裡，我們有各種不同的鋼絲組合，形成不同的隊形。

If you're wondering, this is the point where the nerves kicked in.

如果你想知道，這就是神經開始緊張的時刻。

I don't know if that's coming across on microphone and camera, but the wind is whistling through the metal and through the wires.

我不知道麥克風和攝影機是否能聽到，但風聲呼嘯著穿過金屬和電線。

There's plenty of people that don't get up here.

We own and operate the network in England and Wales.

我們擁有並營運英格蘭和威爾士的網絡。

我們還負責蘇格蘭部分地區的營運。

This training centre was built in the heart of the country because a lot of the power stations were around here, in the Midlands, in Yorkshire, because a lot of the coal that fueled those power stations was being dug up around here.

這個培訓中心建在國家的中心地帶，因為很多發電站都在這裡，在中部地區，在約克郡，因為這些發電站的很多煤炭都是在這裡挖出來的。

There was plenty in Scotland and Tyneside and South Wales too.

蘇格蘭、泰恩賽德郡和南威爾士也有很多。

And a cluster of power stations down on the Thames.

But if you were going to pick a spot in the centre of the power grid to have the best access of every pylon, you'd pick here.

但是，如果要在電網中心選一個地方，讓每個塔架都有最好的通道，你會選擇這裡。

But things are changing and have been changing for decades.

但情況正在發生變化，而且幾十年來一直在變化。

The only coal-fired station left in Britain is about an hour south on the other side of Nottingham, and that'll close down within a year.

英國僅存的一座燃煤發電站位於諾丁漢南面約一小時車程的地方，該發電站將在一年內關閉。

The main replacement right now is gas, and those stations tend to be on the coast where enormous tankers of liquid natural gas can dock.

目前的主要替代品是天然氣，而這些加油站往往位於海岸邊，那裡可以停靠大型液態天然氣油輪。

The nuclear plants are by the coast too, for easy access to cooling water.

核電站也在海邊，便於獲得冷卻水。

Britain is a wind-swept island, and we already get a quarter of all our power from the wind, with half of that from colossal fields of turbines offshore.

英國是一個風力資源豐富的島國，我們已經有四分之一的電力來自風能，其中一半來自海上的巨大渦輪機場。

And there are more and more and more of those being built.

而且，這種建築越來越多、越來越大。

Britain's entire power grid has been steadily turning inside out for years.

多年來，英國的整個電網一直在不斷地向內翻轉。

As anyone who lives in a former coal-mining community like this knows all too well, power generation just isn't happening here anymore.

住在這樣一個曾經的煤礦社區的人都很清楚，這裡已經不再發電了。

Electricity isn't being pushed out from the centre.

Instead, it's being brought in from the coast.

Going to be honest with you, that ladder is swaying a lot more than I'd like.

老實說，梯子搖晃得比我想的要厲害。

I'm going to go down first, and I'll get it a lot more stable here.

National Grid's role is to move energy around the country.

國家電網的職責是在全國範圍內輸送能源。

We don't generate energy, we just connect it to our network.

我們不生產能源，只是將其連接到我們的網絡。

It's weird to see all this infrastructure and not hear the buzz.

看到這麼多基礎設施，卻聽不到嗡嗡聲，感覺很奇怪。

I mean, I guess if you hear the buzzing and you're on here, you're really in trouble, but...

我的意思是，我想如果你聽到嗡嗡聲，你在這裡，你真的有麻煩了，但...

In total today, we have 65 gigawatts of generation connected to the network.

今天，我們總共有 65 千兆瓦的發電設備接入網絡。

That's a whole range of sources, so we have about 90 sources of generation.

這是一系列的發電源，是以我們有大約 90 個發電源。

And the government has a target to connect an additional 50 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030.

政府的目標是到 2030 年再連接 50 千兆瓦的海上風電。

Like it's any normal ladder, a lot of metres above the ground.

就像普通的梯子一樣，離地面很高。

In order to connect the 50 gigawatts of offshore wind that we're seeing out at sea, we need to create a series of subsea cables, new overhead lines, in order to move that energy across the network.

為了連接我們在海上看到的 50 千兆瓦海上風電，我們需要建立一系列海底電纜和新的架空線路，以便在整個網絡中傳輸這些能源。

As it stands, we know that we need to construct five times as much infrastructure in the next seven years as we have in the last 30.

目前的情況是，我們知道在未來 7 年內需要建設的基礎設施是過去 30 年的五倍。

So if you just stop there for two seconds, you can stand on this, and it's pretty secure.

所以，如果你停在那裡兩秒鐘，你就可以站在上面，而且非常安全。

Whenever you feel comfortable, you're perfectly fine.

只要你覺得舒服，就完全沒問題。

You didn't have to prove that by bouncing, though.

不過，你不必通過彈跳來證明這一點。

It's impossible to disentangle politics from the power grid.

要將政治與電網分開是不可能的。