The biggest reliability gap is between the ears of Blackout Bowen

shadowminister

I like that one.

WTF

You surely don't think that anyone is going to take notice of someone who puts his own moniker at the top of a post!

WTF?

ttbn says: "You surely don't think that anyone is going to take notice of someone who puts his own moniker at the top of a post!"

When it seems to be working in your case doesn't it?

Thanks for the feedback - I'll keep it up.

There is such a rumpus about power lines across farming land but the
suggestion of putting them underground gets poo pooded immediately.
It is said to be more expensive. It cannot be that more expensive as
just the manufacture and erection of the towers must be a significant
cost to say nothing of the loss of agricultural land.
Yet two cables can be run under Bass Strait without blinking an eye.
Then of course there was Ziggies power cable from Darwin to Singapore
now taken up by multi billionaire Brookes.
Cables run undersea everywhere. Of course a 1 Megavolt DC cable is
different but suitable protection cannot be that difficult, concrete
ducts protected by depth and concrete cover would soon be known to all
local councils etc.

Bezza, underground cables are 3 to 4 x as expensive otherwise underground would be done everywhere.

As underground power lines are laid less than a metre (600mm I believe) underground, they would be an even bigger impediment to farming. And as SM says, probitively expense. They do it with new housing estates, but only because the developer now has to pay for utilities, not the government.