On: California power lines spark wildfires and prompt blackouts. Why not bury them?

[mike_d]

tl;dr: It would cost $243 billion, or $15,000 for every customer. Also makes repairs a pain in the ass.

[rasz → mike_d]

Burying cable would cost more than building 25K kilometers of fast rail in China, sure, that totally checks out.

[onetimemanytime → rasz]

a gazillion, trillion, million permits of all kind, cost of labor, land buyouts. Compare them to China

[wutbrodo → rasz]

You must be new here. Infrastructure costs in the US are a staggering multiple of costs in the rest of the OECD, let alone places with price levels as low as China.