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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: energy in UK
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:01:27 +0200
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On 2025-04-21 23:54, Don Y wrote:
> On 4/21/2025 9:48 AM, Joe Gwinn wrote:
>> The 5-to-1 is installation only, but it's hard for decreased
>> maintenance and repair to make enough difference to tilt the balance.
> 
> Hmmm, I would have thought damage from storms (branches falling on
> overhead lines), "accidents" (drivers skidding in snow; drunks)
> and the inevitable "road widening" operations would be very costly.

Floods can kill underground service, too.

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> Here, we are plagued with /caliche/ making digging very difficult

new word to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliche

Caliche (/kəˈliːtʃiː/) (unrelated to the street-slang "Caliche" spoken 
in El Salvador) is a soil accumulation of soluble calcium carbonate at 
depth, where it precipitates and binds other materials—such as gravel, 
sand, clay, and silt. It occurs worldwide, in aridisol and mollisol soil 
orders—generally in arid or semiarid regions, including in central and 
western Australia, in the Kalahari Desert, in the High Plains of the 
western United States, in the Sonoran Desert, Chihuahuan Desert and 
Mojave Desert of North America, and in eastern Saudi Arabia at Al-Hasa. 
Caliche is also known as calcrete or kankar (in India). It belongs to 
the duricrusts. The term caliche is borrowed from Spanish and is 
originally from the Latin word calx, meaning lime.[1]

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-- 
Cheers, Carlos.