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by warmwaffles 1572 days ago
I'm also confused as to why there is no communication cable like a fiber optic line to each one of these turbines along with the power cables. Am I missing something?
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I'm guessing it's because someone said (reasonably) "we need to be able to manage these turbines if a line is taken out", so they went "ok, lets add radio/satellite or something". The next thing you do is go "we have that connection, why are we paying huge amounts of money on cable for data when we already have a radio?"