Looking to spark a love for electricity pylons | Brief letters

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When our children were young, to lighten the boredom of driving on holidays in France, we gave titles to different designs of pylon – such as “perky cat” and “droopy dog” (Letters, 30 July). Perhaps if we had more variety in pylon design in the UK and gave them quirky names, people might learn to love them as well as appreciating their necessity.
David Felton
Wistaston, Cheshire

• A little while ago, a survey asked people where they had seen a wind turbine on land, and everyone knew; it then asked where was the nearest pylon to their house, and almost no one knew. The latter had been assimilated into the landscape, whereas the turbines were novel and so still noticed.
Professor Emeritus Mike Elliott
Leven, East Yorkshire

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