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Another movement I'd like to see in the US is to take telephone poles down and put all that wiring under the ground. Would generate jobs and make the country mu
by lemevi 11y ago
Another movement I'd like to see in the US is to take telephone poles down and put all that wiring under the ground. Would generate jobs and make the country much prettier.
- cbd1984 11y agoTelephone wires are already largely underground. What you see are power transmission lines. That's why the transformers are up there, too. I can only imagine it would be rather hazardous to have power transmission lines buried underground, especially in a region prone to any kind of flooding or even heavy, ground-saturating rains.
- Someone 11y agoUnlikely. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undergrounding https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undergrounding: "All low and medium voltage electrical power (<50 kV) in the Netherlands is now supplied underground." That is a country where, in half the country, with way over half the population, you hit water year round after digging less than a meter.
- plonh 11y agoNo, it is just that overhead wires are older and cheaper. New wiring is underground.
- tomschlick 11y agoIt would be crazy expensive to do it all at once in the US. I'm from the north east and almost everywhere is above ground on poles. Only the newer developments are moving to underground.
- megablast 11y agoThey don't have to it all at once, they can spread it over a year or two.
- tomschlick 11y agoit provides little gain, and a year or two is very ambitious. more like 10 or 20. plus we don't have the resources to replace the stuff that needs replaced. let alone to move it all underground.