Posted on 08/28/2023 4:12:03 AM PDT by george76
I see the deep state is still pushing this ridiculous story. If they the MSM to repeat it enough times maybe people will believe it. 😏
You are correct. High voltage lines would also have to be buried 6 feet deep, and the cables would have to be fully insulated against the ground. And buried transformers...Such things are possible, but no one would be able to afford electricity.
Thank you. That is an idiotic argument right there. Now, leaning poles and not doing proper brush clearing of the lines; that is both stupid and deadly.
But hey, they had to spend money on green power, right?
It’s illegal to have uninsulated high voltage lines per national electrical distribution codes.
If they were uninsulated the 70,000 volt lines would be arcing off the towers that support them and non stop fires.
All power lines require insulation period.
An overhead power line is a structure used in electric power transmission and distribution to transmit electrical energy across long distances. It consists of one or more uninsulated electrical cables (commonly multiples of three for three-phase power) suspended by towers or poles.
Since most of the insulation is provided by the surrounding air, overhead power lines are generally the least costly method of power transmission for large quantities of electric energy.
Every single bureaucracy, NGO, utility, and government entity on those islands is run by incompetent liberals.
No! It is very expensive to bury power and communication lines. Separately, the lines that most need burying serve the fewest people making the cost per user even higher.
1960s poles should not be a problem. I have seen poles from the 1930s (they should be replaced).
I find this pole argument to be bogus. Once the first pole goes down and the line breaks, the rest are not getting power.
Are you referring to the pins and insulators on the poles?
The wire is not insulated, but bare. Yes, it is tied to an insulator, but it is not insulated wire.
Absolutely
Yes. Big time lying.
It is HI.
The wire is not insulated
Those are not transmission lines the are guy wires
There is no such thing as a uninsulated transmission line guy wires yes.
your BS degree is noted
Generally speaking, almost all transmission and distribution wires mounted on poles are “bare” - that is, the only insulation they have is the air around them and the little (or big) insulator that attaches them to the pole or tower.
Underground conductors are insulated but cost 10+ times the cost to install as overhead. Not bad when you have an entire city/neighborhood to share the cost, but when you get out where population is less dense, it’s cost-prohibitive. And transmission lines require some extreme insulation due to their very high voltage.
So to say that bare wires are a bad thing - well, YOU can pay to have YOUR wires insulated, but I’ll stick with the somewhat cheaper rates. Someone has to pay since that is a cost of doing business.
Now, to the extent that things are run-down, that might be a factor.
Maybe they should paint the poles and wires that ugly blue - the same ugly blue that Oprah’s roof uses. :)
You are an odurate a$$. I just posted reality and you deny it.
Since most of the insulation is provided by the surrounding air, overhead power lines are generally the least costly method of power transmission for large quantities of electric energy.
Pretty hard to pump water through the city without electricity. Although apparently, at least one idiot thought that water use was racist or some such nonsense and proceeded to shut it off.
Lots of things happened with this fire incident, most of them not good. The police locking people down. Kids home alone from school.
I honestly don’t understand understand what you’re saying.
A guy wire is what is attached to the pole and an anchor in the ground.
Or a guy wire can go from pole to pole.
Many guy connections are insulated from the pole attachment to 78” down from there.
I don’t understand what he is saying.
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