DIYbanter - View Single Post - Stolen from house: 2-story COPPER downspout. Replace with what?

aemeijers

On 9/27/2011 5:16 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:24:48 -0700 (PDT), bob
wrote:

On Sep 27, 2:39Â am, wrote:
On 9/27/2011 12:22 AM, Higgs Boson wrote:

On Sep 26, 1:13 pm, (David Combs) wrote:
We read how in Iraq, early on after the invasion, they
were tearing down power-lines for the valuable copper
they'd then sell.

****Sorry about the vandalism you have suffered.

**** Takes me back to Kenya, umpty years ago. Â The Masai used to pull
down the copper telephone wire and make it into bracelets and
necklaces to sell to the tourists.

****(I guess now everybody uses cell phones? Â No more copper wire?
Haven't been back in decades.)
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HB

In the second and third worlds, where vast areas never got built out for
landlines, now they never will be. Prefab cell towers are just too
cheap. In areas so primitive that mains power never got built out,
powering them reliably is a challenge, as is the backhaul network.

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around here idiots are stealing the copper from power substations,
causing hazards and power outages
And frying their asses occaisionally when trying to remove it "hot"
And aside from the inconvenience to others when the lights go out, and
that said idiots probably have already reproduced, this is a problem
because?...

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