This is a proposal to re-allocate left-over funds from the budgets of existing Departments and Agencies that are being largely dismantled or downsized, and their office and property resources auctioned off, and use those cannibalized proceeds towards the upgrading of our national electrical infrastructure in order to finally do away with antiquated, unsafe, and insecure energy delivery systems.
Current above-ground transmission lines are vulnerable to storm damage from falling trees and limbs. Open lines are also vulnerable to RFI and outside energy induction issues. Pole-mounted equipment (ie:. transformers, etc) are high over-head instead of being easily accessible at ground level for quick and easy repairs. Most of the electrical grid is NOT hardened against EMP-blast surge damaged and should be. Buried energy transmission lines free up the surface of the country, remove numerous obstructions and potential accidents and subsequent power outages, and help to shield our infrastructure against terrorist attacks or vandalism, due to its currently open and vulnerable nature. As well, shielding and sinking electrical lines below the earth can greatly decrease the amount of background ambient radiation, radio frequency interference, and incidence of leukemia and other cancers related to being in close proximity to active aerial and poorly shielded high voltage lines.
And finally, the process of moving our electrical infrastructure completely below ground (like many other countries already do), enhances our standard of livings by promoting a beautification of our existing environment. This isnât about âGoing GreenââŚits about âMoving away from an ugly, antiquated energy grid, and into a 21st century logistical infrastructure. This is a temporary but extensive proposed project, which would make good and logical use of the left-over resources generated from the downsizing of our other departments and agencies. It is a recycling upgrade which we desperately need at this point, in order to be on par with other 1st world countries that already have buried infrastructure. Thanks.
From the public. Perhaps after the government stops artificially propping up the economy with debt, and the stock market is allowed to collapse (as it should have 15 years ago) in a massive fashion (like in 1929), then we might have plenty of people grabbing shovels and scrambling for work. The Hoover Dam was also a challenging undertaking, a public works project on a timeframe, and it was completed as well. The future is still unknown and I would not care to speculate how future labor would make its way to a future project. The effort placed in this forum is only to give suggestions to ACTUAL policy makers to consider, devise, and convert meaningful policy into actual work. If you have suggestions on where labor might come from, by all means include it â every bit of suggestion and brain-storming is appreciated by them, I would think. Any ideas?
We have more people working in America than ever. Weâre at âfull employmentâ and the ranks of the unemployed are mostly unemployable or unwilling to move to where jobs are or unwilling to work low pay jobs.
I would hope not to be such a pessimist; however, I donât believe that our current employment situation is going to continue. Much of the âmoneyâ propping up our current economy is coming from worthless fiat currency. When everyone else catches on that the U.S. dollar is simply a worthless IOU from the private Federal Reserve, backed by nothing, then we may see the TRUE nature of the economy (as it might have looked in the âdirty thirtiesâ (1930s). I could be wrong, but that is my prediction, and if so, I dont think there will be a âlabor shortageâ problem for public works projects. On the contrary, I see a government scrambling to create publics works projects in order to put unemployed people back to work and get the economy moving again. I could easily see former doctors and lawyers (and laid-off governmental officials) holding shovels.