Some cause & effect here: PG&E is not shutting down power because they get sued every time they burn down a city. They are shutting down power because they deferred maintenance for decades in order to maximize shareholder profits and now their systems are too broken to safely run
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They do small, superficial thinning projects while insurance companies may end up being the real deciders because living in these parts of California may become financially infeasible/uninsurable even if you micro-gridded.https://www.latimes.com/projects/wildfire-california-fuel-breaks-newsom-paradise/ …
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When publicly-elected officials try to prod residents along in managing their vegetation properly for the safety of everyone else, they endure backlashes and shift to "voluntary" (eg wholly insufficient) programs:https://abc7news.com/society/mill-valley-reverses-fire-prevention-plan-after-backlash/5519714/ …
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Excellent counterpoint, friend.
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it’s $5-6K per tree to remove them near power lines and $3-5M per mile to underground lines. PG&E has more than a hundred thousand miles of lines and covers 70% of the vegetated terrain in California. While I agree with you they are negligent in many cases,