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  Re: Technical Demo turns political 2/26/1909 
  Re: To Bury or Not to Bury 


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We must fight spam for the same reason we fight crime: not because we are naive enough to believe that we will ever stamp it out, but because we do not want the kind of world that results when no one stands against crime. Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer, and other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:07:19 GMT From: "Gene S. Berkowitz" <first.last@verizon.net> To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu Subject: Re: Technical Demo turns political 2/26/1909 Message-ID: <MPG.241e5fdc8c09dc3d989954@news.verizon.net> In article <gp0mrp$fvk$1@panix2.panix.com>, kludge@panix.com says... > There are also big cities with huge amounts of undocumented > infrastructure under the streets, where the excavation has to be done by > hand and the cable laid a foot at the time to prevent disturbing other > services. > --scott Thank goodness that those cities should soon have a steady supply of bankers and stock brokers, who, with patient training, can be taught which end of the shovel to hold. --Gene ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:35:59 -0400 From: Will Roberts <oldbear@arctos.com> To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu Subject: Re: To Bury or Not to Bury Message-ID: <0MKpCa-1LgjQo1Oze-000czW@mrelay.perfora.net> In Telecom Digest, <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote: >Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 18:45:49 -0800 (PST) >From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com >To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu >Subject: Re: To Bury or Not to Bury > >As to burying power lines, obviously individual lines to houses and >lines to a block of houses can be buried. But is there a limit to the >amount of voltage on a line that can economically be placed >underground? I thought at one point higher voltages don't work so >well underground. > >I'll note that while in the city phone lines are buried, in the >suburbs they're on poles. Several of the major transmission lines feeding the City of Boston have been placed underground in the last few years: "As part of its commitment to serve customers well, NSTAR has commenced construction of three new, underground 345-kilovolt (345-kV) transmission lines. The purpose of the new lines is to reinforce the Greater Boston Area, including surrounding communities, with additional electric power to meet both near term and longer term customer needs for reliable electric service." http://www.transmissionproject.net/ http://www.transmissionproject.net/FAQ.asp See also: http://tdworld.com/projects_in_progress/business_in_tech/kv-xlpe-underground-cable/ And there is a "PowerPoint" presentation which explains the economics and why the utility decided to construct a new 18-mile underground 345-kv transmission line rather than augment existing lines or construct a new overhead line: http://sandbox.iso-ne.com/pubs/pubcomm/forums/2005/tcapsm_jan312005/NSTAR_345kv_Project_NE_State_Review_01_31_05%5B1%5D.ppt (Sorry about the very long URLs.) Regards, Will ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly to telecom- munications topics. 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