But Rice replied that burying poles isn't as simple a solution as it seems. Buried lines are harder to maintain and have not been proven to withstand storms. The French Quarter and eastern New Orleans kept power not because their lines are buried, he said, but "the luck of the draw."Your electricity service is a random element whose dependability is subject not to the dimensions of the infrastructure designed to deliver it but only to unknowable vagaries of Fortuna's whim. Stop trying to control that which you can never understand.
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Nobody could have predicted
One more nugget from Charles Rice yesterday.
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I like pointing out Rice is a lawyer/MBA with zero technical background. He's never taken a circuits course and knows nothing about infrastructure.
There really, honestly is something to be said for a technical background at the top. Mother Nature cannot be fooled, as Dr. Feynman liked to say.
My comments aren't quite working right. They appear on the mobile version, but not this one.
My comment was about how Charles Rice actually doesn't know squat about transmission. He's a worthless lawyer/MBA. He's never taken a circuits course and wouldn't know a Ampere from a Watt.
There really is something to be said for a hard technical background at the top. Richard Feynman used to say something about how "Mother Nature cannot be fooled"...
Yeah I just noticed your comment. Apparently the mobile version of Blogger doesn't accommodate Disqus. That plus the fact that I still can't get the old JS-Kit comments loaded in makes me start to reconsider installing Disqus in the first place.
Have you seen the tunnels in the Quarter and the CBD? A person can walk through them. The electric, telephonic and cable lines run through them.
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