The Jackuul Blog

The Grid – How I learned to love conductors.

First off let’s explore what we can do about the local grid system. As you probably know by now most electricity runs above ground, and some of it below ground; there are advantages and disadvantages to both systems that are quite complex in their own rights. An underground system would be impervious to wind, tornadoes, hurricanes, some flooding, hail, and idiots who cannot drive. However, massive rainfall and extended flooding can do a system that is based underground in. An above ground system is more likely to survive in a hilly area with mudslides, earthquakes, a high water table, and it is cheaper to implement by tenfold. Access to an underground system is basically digging up pipes and disrupting whatever is around the entire area while the above ground system is much easier to access – but it also means it is much easier to be an electrocution hazard with the mishaps that happen after any disaster. The solution to both these problems lies in the way we decided where above and below ground systems go. We need to decide based of efficiency – because frankly an above ground system in tornado ally is like putting pins in front of a senile bowlers driveway – you just know he’s going to snap and come out shooting with his 10 gauge shotgun calling the pins ‘Charlie’.

Come back tomorrow for the Electric Future – The Grid III