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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla
The immediate source of difficulties just all anywhere are California forests shorting the lines. Second place is probably transformer fires.
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Simply keep bending metal back and forth. It eventually breaks - just like metal wires on poles constantly bending back and forth in high winds.
Transformer fires more often happen after some other external event - a fallen wires, lightning strikes, etc. All eliminated when transformers are underground with the wires.
How to make a nation more product and wealthier. Invest money into what makes equipment and systems more reliable and last longer. And not waste $3 trillion on wars only justified by emotions and lies.
We are still paying for off that $3 trillion fiasco (and another $2 trillion in a nearby country). Where does that money come from? Schools, infrastructure, utility systems, innovation, research, public welfare, and a military that is twice as large as all other NATO countries combined. CA electric problems are simply another symptoms of money games that now must exist.
Considering how little we invest, it is amazing how reliable the electric grid really is.
UTs numbers assume we will only rip up existing neighborhoods. Those costs are quite small when high voltage wires transverse open spaces - where fires happen.
Why do electric wires costs so much more to bury that 24 inch pipe lines?
But then we would have had $3 trillion to invest had we not decided to massacre 5000 American servicemen in Iraq for no purpose.