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It is the height of a highly destructive hurricane season in the United States. The devastation of Harvey in Texas and Louisiana caused nearly 300,000 customers to lose electricity service, and Hurricane Irma has cut service to millions of people. Soon, winter storms will bring wind and snow to much of the country.
Anxious people everywhere worry about the impact these storms might have on their safety, comfort and convenience. Will they disrupt my commute to work? My children's ride to school? My electricity service?
When it comes to electricity, people turn their attention to the power lines overhead and wonder if their electricity service might be more secure if those lines were buried underground. But having studied this question for utilities and regulators, I can say the answer is not that straightforward. Burying power lines, also called undergrounding, is expensive, requires the involvement of many stakeholders and might not solve the problem at all.
Would burying power lines render them more weather-proof?
Read the full article on The Conversation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @07:56PM
this is hilarious
I have never lived in a community in the US with exposed power lines. I live in a windy tornado prone area right now, and it isn't all double underground or something. everything is. the telco, even gigabit fiber internet offerings. it's all 100% underground. there are a few areas out of the substations where wires lead into the ground, but from there--they are still in the ground.
Even the hook up to my home -- is underground. There are no exposed wires at all anywhere in my subdivision, except for people with an antenna on the roof and their antenna wire is exposed prior to going into the house.
if we had to worry about what you are proposing to be the cheap way to do it, I'd go out of business because of the power outages, and things would break
It's like you say no because you are not open to change. ya'll aint dumb so please consider views outside of your personal anecdotes. lots of businesses would like to pay their employees to work and make money to provide that jingle in the pockets you mention.
no one here is worried about what the power lines we cant see look like
so really have you never planned for failure, or do you just expect the employer to buy replacements? its really amazing how narrow of a view you have for this, and its so narrow i expect it to be political. but it doesnt make sense to make this political. blue AND red houses lose power when the lines fall down