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Default Overhead power cables.

On 04/01/18 14:12, newshound wrote:
On 04/01/2018 11:56, wrote:
On Thursday, 4 January 2018 11:52:23 UTC, Dave Plowman (News)Â* wrote:
Just how many time to these have to be replaced in a storm before
they get
the message that they'd survive a storm if underground?


they already know

+1


cost of repairing overhead 11KV fault. £2000.

Cost of undergrounding it - £30,000 per kilometer.

Dave, lefty**** that he is, still thinks there is a magic money tree
somewhere that 'capitalists' have 'kept all to themselves'...

Bless.



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