• redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      Fr. How much must the economy lose to such frequent power outages. I suppose if you’re getting paid to reconstruct, it’s not ‘loss’.

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        When you have privatized gains and socialised costs as usual is at least partially true for necessities, they don’t give a shit because everything major happens and they know the government won’t just let mass of people without it and will have to help or at least give money.

    • thisismyrealname [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      buried AC transmission lines also suffer from capacitive losses to earth which would significantly reduce grid efficiency on the distances being covered in the US. we do have buried lines within cities but outside of them it doesn’t really make sense