Posted by knightstead on July 05, 2012 at 13:57:28 from (70.246.153.112):
In Reply to: power outage..... posted by dave2 on July 04, 2012 at 21:20:19:
[quote="dblair"](quoted from post at 13:16:33 07/05/12) the electric grid hasn't improved since I was born .
we live in a country with a 3rd world electric grid.
Look at modern countries the electric is buried .
they could bury 1% a year at least in a hundred
years we would be modern and almost immune from
storms knocking out our power .[/quote
I have nothing against underground but the problem you mentioned is very complicated. The transmission system is what needs the most updating and I not aware of a safe way to bury 69,000+ volts. Distribution could go mostly underground but the cost is over double that of overhead lines, and it's more dangerous for lineman to work on. Another thing that most people don't realize is that power companies rent out their poles. They get paid for each pole that is used for telephone, fiber, etc., and if they switch to underground they would lose all that income. I'm not claiming to know it all and hope I don't sound like it. It is funny that power companies are having more and more outages but refuse to hire more lineman. I just graduated line school and believe me, nobody wants to hire now.
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