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@ gustofwind @lemmy.world

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  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • Well I’ve never seen anyone deal with power lines who didn’t have those things so cheers, doesn’t sound too bad

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • Do i get fellow workers, overtime, and modern equipment?

  • For those who's country's national language is NOT English, how fluent is your English compared to your country's language?

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  • It’s funny how sometimes one word changes the entire sentence and other times it has basically no effect at all

    Can actually mess up quite a few words and still successfully communicate which I think is just great

    Not sure how flexible other languages are about that kinda stuff

  • For those who's country's national language is NOT English, how fluent is your English compared to your country's language?

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  • As a native English speaker foreigners often have better technical English because they have to learn the actual rules of grammar properly

    We don’t actually get a thorough education in America for our own language. Some people do but most just get the basics and the rest is on us to absorb

  • US controls 90% of AI chip markets and produces far more advanced AI models than China, yet it has lost much of manufacturing capacity needed to build at scale and depends on rivals for materials

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  • Maybe the billionaires can buy some advanced tech manufacturing facilities and whatnot 🤷‍♀️

  • Should we sell our kidneys?

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  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • I’ve seen them buried in some hurricane prone areas here but not many of them. I don’t think they’d need to bury most of the high voltage lines as those are easy to maintain above ground but there are a lot of disaster prone areas that could benefit from residential power being buried locally

    So yes we’d need to be smart about choosing the appropriate places for it but nearly all the places that could use it dont because $$

  • Cold outside, mushroom soup inside

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  • I call these kinds of meals deluxe hospital meals

    Looks great

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • There are ways to do it that are not so terrible but the preplanning is immense and it would be difficult to implement in many places that are filled with lots of underground utilities already

    I’ve also seen a few people around me bury the line from the pole to their house so it probably has to be done piecemeal like that if at all

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • Is that the real cost differential? Someone else said it’s only 5-7x more expensive which doesn’t sound that bad

    Not to discount the significance of such expenses but 5-7x is way different than 100x the expense

    also the value of lost power can be significant, if someone dies you lose all their economic output for life and some people can work from home so even a few hundred people losing power could add up and have been worth paying for underground cables

  • I require a phaser.

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  • I will boldly go where others might not

    Data and Worf are tied for best character

    Everyone else are great but don’t have the same depth of character

  • I require a phaser.

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  • Data is tied for best character on the show

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • Well there are many compelling reasons but they all seem to be countered with “but that’s expensive”

    So I think it’s fair to say it’s primitive because the reason for use is it’s the cheapest solution to the problem of power delivery

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • I guess unless you plan the community to have underground lines to begin with it’s just a no go?

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • I think it’s probably reasonable to run the large transmission lines open because they’re huge and easier to landscape but most people live in dense suburbs or cities (where they’re already underground)

    And most dense suburbs just have their power polls waiting precariously under trees which requires additional tree maintenance and is expensive to fix after a storm

    I agree there are places it wouldn’t make sense but it seems like nearly all the places where it would make sense still havnt bothered (cost, I know)

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • I was in a suburb once that had the lines running in an accessible plastic rectangle running between the sidewalk and road and it seemed pretty brilliant

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • They wouldn’t be coated or in a tube/box of some kind to ameliorate that?

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    Should I be trying to leave the USA before it's too late?

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  • You are slightly overreacting, yes. You may as well simply move to a blue state and city.

    There is also another real question to ask:

    If you run somewhere else and your new home also begins to slide toward right wing fascism will you just run again?

  • I walked outside and owls were hooting. Why do they hoot?

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  • It’s the least they could give