road-runner wrote:
Fyi
80% of forest fires are started by humans. The rest by lightning.
Powerlines are nowhere near as dangerous.
Some might disagree:
The Camp Fire was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California's history, and the most expensive natural disaster in the world in 2018 in terms of insured losses....Ignited by a faulty electric transmission line.
Camp Fire - California
In last years annual Calif forest fires, it was reported that PG&E still had transformers in use that dated to 1929, and that the reason their grid system was in considerable need of upgrade was because the State had previously forced PG&E to redirect sizable amounts of their resources to fund so called ‘Green initiatives’, forcing grid maintenance to be deferred…On the eastern Sierra slope (near my Nevada residence) Calif no longer maintains it’s fire trails (now mostly impassable) nor do they clear up decaying forest debris, while heavy dense smoke and ash drifts into neighboring States (impacting other’s health) and million of acres of Calif forest land are thoroughly immolated - an annual reoccurrence …These months long fires are likely the #1 source of Calif carbon production, yet, their carbon production is conveniently ignored and exempted from Calif’s own industry regulated carbon calculations, a fee based carbon trading and credit gambit that entirely dismisses forest fire carbon emissions… One dimensional Policy makers try to conceal actual fire causes (conveniently pointing to the Global warming boogyman) while pre-occupied with solar and wind activism..
Still no empirical science exist (or has been publicly disseminated) to support their tenured Bureaucratic activism, and no accountability exist whatsoever for their intransigence or forest management malfeasance …
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