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Falling branches don't cut buried power lines. This has everything to do with crappy infrastructure and nothing with love for trees.
by usrusr 10y ago
Falling branches don't cut buried power lines. This has everything to do with crappy infrastructure and nothing with love for trees.
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoGood luck finding someone willing to pay to have squillions of kilometres of above ground power lines buried. Sydney alone has 63,000 kilometres[1] of overhead power lines. One estimate puts the cost at $23.37 billion.[2] 1. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/29/1027926858231.html http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/29/1027926858231.html 2. https://www.ipart.nsw.gov.au/files/7b5531d9-cf65-4b1b-ae7b-9f2601809811/Pittwater_Council_-_S4894.pdf https://www.ipart.nsw.gov.au/files/7b5531d9-cf65-4b1b-ae7b-9...
- huxley 10y agoAccording to your citations, that figure is for all of urban and suburban Australia, not Sydney and would be spread out over 30-40 years
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoThat'll learn me for skim reading and cherry-picking to suit my narrative.
- huxley 10y agoIt's easy enough to do, at least you cited.
- usrusr 10y agoSome places even managed to get entire sewer systems buried. Granted, that happened on a very different level of urgency (you really want shit to flow, and it only flows downward), but it gives the appropriate perspective on any excuses that are based on the natural scale of infrastructure.
- intrasight 10y agoIs not a good analogy since nobody builds a sewer system above ground and then replaces it with one below ground.
- fdgdasfadsf 10y agoThe point is that for sewers there was no choice so we just swallowed the cost and got on with it. For power there was so we went for the cheaper less reliable option.