Either way this shakes out, it's going to be on us. Btw, PG&E has 125,000 miles of lines. Between 2013 and 2017, 16,000 sections of them fell. https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-e-sparked-at-least-1-500-california-fires-now-the-utility-faces-collapse-11547410768 …
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Today, in Californians grossly underestimating the cost of making our electrical grid safer amid climate change.https://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article224968200.html …
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Today, in Californians grossly underestimating the cost of adapting our infrastructure to climate change.https://twitter.com/michaelwwara/status/1088512631135031296?s=21 …
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Actually, it's a statewide labor shortage of anyone willing to do physically risky jobs that are prone to accidents.https://twitter.com/FactChecker23/status/1084840346343768064 …
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SoCal's fires are more like brush fires, NorCal's fires are tree-wildfires, which are just inherently more deadly because it's harder to evacuate. So you have to tease out -- what's different bc of the style of fire & what's different bc of mgmt/safety culture.
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Running an electric grid is a very difficult business & at a time of climate change & the needed energy transition, will get more expensive. Better that the public see the costs transparently in a publicly owned utility rather than with profit margins added.
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Would love to see some papers on proposed govt/management structures!
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Is it even possible to put such high voltage power lines underground?
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