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How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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It seems kind of primitive to have power lines just hanging on poles, right?

Bit unsightly too

Is it just a cost issue and is it actually significant when considering the cost of power loss on society (work, hospital, food, etc)?

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[–] 15 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Population of Sweden: 10.6 million

Population of the USA: 340.1 million

So the population density is very similar and I therefore don't understand what you're getting at.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Americans loooooooooooooooove pointing out at their population density as a thought-terminating cliché although it's very rarely relevant to any discussion.

    The size of your continent does not influence the size of your metro areas, dipshits. LA isn't the way it is because Wyoming is empty, LA is the way it is because a bunch of dumbasses decided that local mass transit and terraced housing should be outlawed and bulldozed in order to fuck over African-Americans communities.

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