Guardian: Our desire for ever more electricity is fuelling a fresh row over pylons – and where to place them. Bill Bryson, president of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, calls plans for new pylons to be stretched across 170 miles of British countryside “crazy”. And given that the countryside in question includes sublime swathes of Snowdonia, Kent and Somerset, he has a point. Yet the electricity pylon itself is all too often an object of hate, when not only does it perform an invaluable …