"The UK’s electricity market is far from perfect, but it is quite robust enough to handle a near hurricane, followed by unexpected falls in wind speed. What further demonstrations that wind turbines are effective providers of electricity could possibly be required?"

Flash Bristow's guide to the changes in British pylon design over the last eighty years or so. This was the best bit of another Jonathan Glancey Guardian piece: http://gu.com/p/2p972/

Various architecture critics on Twitter debating pylons and classic modern design.

From a couple of years ago, Stephen Spender's poem The Pylons quoted in a piece by Jonathan Glancey.

The BBC, starting from a false premise (that pylons aren't pretty already) and going down a complete blind alley (some unbuilt, anthropomorphic, and awful designs) before revealing a couple of interesting nuggets (like the name of the chap who designed the UK's current pylons). Still, overall worth a read.

On exposed live cables (or "stray voltage") in New York. "Since the start of 2008, only about eight shocks per month have been recorded, down from almost 24 a month in 2004, according to the foundation’s Web site. The number of electrified objects has risen steadily, to more than 900 per month this year, the data show." America is a bit broken.

A prototype phone that uses ambient energy in radio waves to power standby mode (nearly). "Instead of harvesting tiny amounts of power (a few microwatts) from dedicated transmitters, Nokia claims it is able to scavenge relatively large amounts of power — around a thousand times as much — from signals coming from miles away"

A video about Sizewell, Suffolk's nuclear power station. Nice pictures and a nicely poetic narrative from Laura Barton.

"It's a simple, clever thing that tells you how much electricity you're using." ... "The big problem with it at the moment is the unit price, it's a lot, £150. That makes it mostly a bourgeois indulgence." Will smart meters bring these to the masses?