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This is why the rest of the world has abandoned above-ground power lines in favor of secure underground power lines. Fewer fires, fewer black outs...
This is why the rest of the world has abandoned above-ground power lines in favor of secure underground power lines. Fewer fires, fewer black outs...
There is nowhere in the world that power lines are put underground unless there is a reason they can't go above ground: dense urban area, unable to secure a right-of-way, crossing another piece of linear infrastructure like a highway, etc.. It's way more expensive to go underground, it causes technical challenges at high voltage necessitating additional, expensive infrastructure like capacitor banks and point-on-wave…
>In reality, the difference in the status of power lines between Canada and Finland is not so clear-cut. As things stand now, 11% of power lines in Québec (my province of Canada) are buried, while this number is approximately 42% in Finland. The main difference though, is that Finland has an active strategy to increase this number to 65% by 2029. Helen, the energy company for Helsinki, already operates a power network buried at 97,7%.
The new law seems to demand that power outages must not be longer than 6 hours within cities or 36 hours on rural areas[1][2].
[0] https://www.tys.fi/power-lines-buried-finland-not-canada/ [1] https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-6927938 [2] https://www.tekniikkatalous.fi/tekniikka/katkoton-sahko-vie-...
At a certain point, it's going to cost less to cover every sun facing surface in ultra low cost photovoltaics, and have on site battery storage, than to maintain, replace and repair last mile power lines and middle-mile + long distance high voltage lines. Imagine eliminating all of the salary and benefit costs for thousands of linemen, bucket trucks, insurance, consumables, transformers, substations, not to mention t…
What happens when it's cloudy for a few days and the batteries are dead?
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What happens when it's cloudy for a few days and the batteries are dead?
Why are the batteries dead? Anyway you might be able to run a cable to your next door neighbour. I know of people who already sell solar power to their neighbours.
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There's plenty of western states on fire right now with robust logging industries.
Which? Oregon and Washington are a small fraction of what they used to be. Federal laws (endagered species act, etc) killed off the vast majority of it, and decimated many small towns.
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If you do the math, I'd guess PG&E's share of the blame is maybe a millionth of a percent.
let's see. PG&E sells 970 billion cubic feet of gas per year [1] and the most recent study I could find pegs the CO2 output of electrical generation at 456 lbs per MWh in 2007 [2] (which is pretty low), and generated or bought about 80 terawatt-hours in 2014 [3] 456 lbs * 80,000,000 megawatt-hours = 36.5 billion lbs CO2 or 1.65 million metric tons from electrical generation/purchased generated power. Natural gas rele…
But the cause of global warming today is the accumulated global production of CO₂ since the start of industrialism a few centuries back.
I'll be less ambitious than you and not attempt to compute the number by my definition.
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She isn't setting this up as a court case. She's trying to manufacture enough political cover for the governor and various other cronies to plausibly save her firm from its self-imposed predicament. They can pass any law they want, if the voting public is confused enough.
so confused we think its very nice of the legislative branch (or is it the executive) to show the judicial branch how its done?
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2018/04/26/487452...
On a national level, the same thing happened for ATT etc. when Room 641A was exposed to public scrutiny. Otherwise there would have been lots of lawsuits on that. Actually, aside from the post facto nature of these particular laws, I'm glad that the courts have to defer to the legislature in defining the Law. Judges are on average even more corrupt than legislators.