Re: Underground Transmission Lines

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Camera, sensing and communication technology has come a long ways in recent years. You would think there are solutions installable on high voltage lines and towers to immediately detect and automatically alleviate fire hazard problems implementable at a small fraction of the cost of buried high voltage lines.

With the right incentives and electrical, safety, fire code standard approvals for state level bureaucratic sign off you would think this could be done.

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