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Telephone 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 i
by cbd1984 11y ago
Telephone 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.