Prepare For the Road Cone Apocalypse

submitted by raven9 from self.corruption

sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]raven9[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

no one really wants to pay 10X more for electricity.

In Europe the bill was about 1.5x higher but that has a lot more to do with their obsession with expensive renewable energy sources than how they run their power lines.

[–]Node 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm sure PG&E, for example, would be willing to clear-cut forests near power lines to avoid shutdowns, but their operations are heavily restricted by people trying to be "green".

When they don't shut down power to bone dry regions with wind blowing trees into the lines, they face billions in costs when massive fires result. Instead of protecting their homes from wildfires, they expect PG&E to somehow prevent fires in the first place. But there are other sources of fires.