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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[–] 3 points 9 months ago (5 children)

It's easy when nearly all of your population lives in a third of your landmass mostly in the south. We're still talking about residential. Most of our cities and towns are also not walkable if that gives you an estimate of how spread out we are even in urban areas here.

Besides it took laws for power companies to get the last rural communities and families. I remember my grandparents talking about it. Honestly the better investment would be putting up solar panels cut off from the grid with battery banks to cover the most rural over here.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (4 children)

    all the power generation is in the north

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I thought we were talking about residential lines, not transmission lines.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    then why does geographical location matter?

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    is there supposed to be an image in your comment? anyway, some more specific numbers then.

    the stockholm region, the most populated area of sweden, is a bit less than twice the size of the city of houston TX, with about the same population of 2.3 million people. but the population density of the area is about 1/4th that of houston, at 380/km^2^ compared to 1400.

    meanwhile the norrbotten region, the most sparsely populated area, is just above alaska in population density.

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