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    MEGA PIPES

    Aug 06, 2020 5 minutes

    The statistics

    Nord Stream

    Length: 1,224 kilometres

    Pipe segments: 199,755

    Diameter of pipe: 1.153 metres

    Pipe segment weight: 24 tonnes

    Lifetime: 50+ years

    Houses fuelled: 26 million

    Right now the planet’s demand for energy is growing at an exponential rate. Each year more people are born and more homes are built to accommodate them, with each new property needing to be supplied with electricity and gas. This hunger for energy is ravenous, and looking forward it seems to show no signs of abating.

    To combat this ever-rising need for power, creative new energy-generating technologies are being implemented, many with renewability at their heart. Progress has and is already being made in this pursuit, with wind farms, marine turbines and solar power stations increasingly contributing to national energy grids. This is undoubtedly the best way forward for our warming planet. Unfortunately though, right now the demand for energy far outweighs that being inputted by

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