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Comment by idiotsecant

2 years ago

In which case the earth itself can steal the power, in addition to making your electric bill 500 times higher from the capital cost required to bury millions of miles of transmission network.

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cogman10  2 years ago

I'd assume buried lines would be HVDC rather than AC which effectively eliminates the loses from burying.

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