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Who cares? If they don’t want their power drawn they need to be burying their powerlines anyway.
by deadbabe 3y ago
Who cares? If they don’t want their power drawn they need to be burying their powerlines anyway.
- j-bos 3y agoAlternatively Who cares? If they don’t want their oil siphoned they need to be burying their pipelines anyway. Most would agree that unauthorized draws from common infrastructure resulting in loss is theft.
- 1minusp 3y agoCost of undergrounding power lines is large. Especially over the distribution network (in that there is a lot more of it over space)
- sdenton4 3y agoOn the other hand, hung lines have a tendency to fall down, get tangled in trees, and start forest fires, so the cost of above ground lines is also high...
- rrr_oh_man 3y agoIf Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic taught me anything it's that underground power lines are for the capitalist bourgeoisie.
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- woopsn 3y agoBurying those lines is not practical. Inspecting and repairing them is. The problem is significant deferred maintenance. Buried lines cost much more to maintain, in addition to installation costs even where they are feasible. It's better to make sure (1) the towers don't fall down (2) into a forest ready to ignite. That can be done, but we have to pay.
- deadbabe 3y agoSee this is the thing: people complain about the little bit of power being eaten up by drones. But if power companies really cared, they’d bury their powerlines. They really don’t care. It’s a rounding error.
- Filligree 3y agoThis is a classic prisoner’s dilemma, and you’re advocating for both sides to hit “betray”. Perhaps if enough drones did this, they would indeed bury the lines. But that would be strictly worse than a world in which they didn’t bury them, and drones don’t steal electricity regardless.
- idiotsecant 3y agoIn which case the earth itself can steal the power, in addition to making your electric bill 500 times higher from the capital cost required to bury millions of miles of transmission network.
- cogman10 3y agoI'd assume buried lines would be HVDC rather than AC which effectively eliminates the loses from burying.
- pigpang 3y agoPower company can install a mesh or net over lines, to prevent sitting on them, or use another drone to inspect lines and direct a man with a shotgun.