http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/01/02/how-much-electric-line-protection-is-enough Comments On: How much electric line protection is enough? by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:15:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
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I know two people who have purchased natural gas generators this year. That s*** ain't cheap and I can't afford one. Maybe all the transmission lines should be buried, so we can "spread the wealth around" and force other customers to pay for our uptime.

And yet I am okay with this. A hypocrite, I am.
Posted by ProCarry]]> Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:39:56 -0600 Arkansas Times “Cost-Effectiveness of Undergrounding Power Lines”
http://www.woodpoles.org/documents/MARA.pd…

Take away:
Cost per mile of single phase is $15k overhead vs. $25k underground
Cost per mile of 3 phase is $80k overhead vs. $160k underground
Cost per mile of 3 phase (extra-large) is $250k overhead vs. $1500 underground.
Service life is 30-50 years overhead vs. 30 underground;
underground reliability fades after 25 years.
Undergrounding the last span reduces outage times
but on the whole undergrounding is not economically justified.


“It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.”
Malcolm Forbes
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