Isaiah Taylor

And so if we want to fix this problem, you need to use capitalism to fix it.

That's what we're really good at as Americans.

And to do that, you have to decentralize.

You have to let different companies try different strategies and fix the problem.

So the technical reason for this is resistance.

So you're going to lose power.

Power does not travel through the cable.

it travels through the electrical field around the cable.

If a power line is underground, you have resistance with the ground.

The electromagnetic field is actually traveling through the dirt,

and you're picking up all sorts of resistance along that.

So bearing cables, now maybe we're making enough energy that we don't care about that, and we just decide to bury it.

But another way to think about this is keep it above ground because it's cheaper that way and because you lose less energy, and then have it more decentralized, which means one cable set going down doesn't destroy the whole grid.

That's an alternative way to do it.

And then you don't really have to worry about the fact that they're above ground or that one transformer got blown up or these sorts of things.

If it's broken up into smaller risk areas and it's diversified, then you just don't have to worry about these problems that much and the system solves itself.

Yeah, another way you can do this is with insulation, that sort of thing.

Again, anything underground is more expensive, right?

You're digging, you've got groundwork, you're thinking about ground stability, these sorts of things.

And these are problems we figured out.