On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 01:37:37 +0000, Lee wrote:

Maybe one of the ways to "punish" the excessive profits of the energy
companies would be to require them to relocate the supplies to the
outside wall - of course they'd never agree to it

Many places that would be very difficult and it would probably be
better to scrap the entire supply infrastructure and install new.
Thinking ordinary streets with the supplies buried *somewhere* under
the houses to a main *somewhere* under the street or front gardens.
You could dig up each junction and connect a new supply cable to the
old leaving the old in thr ground but some of this stuf will be old
('30's semis may well be still be fed by orginal cabling, so 80 odd
years old). Start poking it and it's going to break or become
unreliable...

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Cheers
Dave.