Australian Politics Forum - The copper costs $1M dollars/year to maintain?

BatteriesNotIncluded Gold Member Offline MediocrityNET: because people died for this! Posts: 26966	The copper costs $1M dollars/year to maintain? Oct 25^th, 2012 at 4:08pm True or false??,... the comments in various forums seem to mention this as a supposed fact!
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gizmo_2655 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 16010 South West NSW Gender:	Re: The copper costs $1M dollars/year to maintain? Reply #1 - Oct 25^th, 2012 at 6:19pm BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Oct 25^th, 2012 at 4:08pm: True or false??,... the comments in various forums seem to mention this as a supposed fact! Don't most people use washing machines now??
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BatteriesNotIncluded Gold Member Offline MediocrityNET: because people died for this! Posts: 26966	Re: The copper costs $1M dollars/year to maintain? Reply #2 - Oct 26^th, 2012 at 12:42pm OOPS, WRONG FORUM!
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gizmo_2655 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 16010 South West NSW Gender:	Re: The copper costs $1M dollars/year to maintain? Reply #3 - Oct 26^th, 2012 at 12:49pm BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Oct 26^th, 2012 at 12:42pm: OOPS, WRONG FORUM! Perhaps it is...although why you put a topic about 50+yr old laundry equipment in the environment section is the question
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Frances Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3577 In a Castle in the Hills Gender:	Re: The copper costs $1M dollars/year to maintain? Reply #4 - Oct 26^th, 2012 at 1:05pm BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Oct 25^th, 2012 at 4:08pm: [color=#ff0000]The copper costs $1M dollars/year to maintain? I didn't think salaries in the Police force were that high....
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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 41890 Gender:	Re: The copper costs $1M dollars/year to maintain? Reply #5 - Oct 26^th, 2012 at 1:17pm $1M per year, I would have thought more than that.
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Re: The copper costs $1M dollars/year to maintain?
Reply #6 - Oct 26^th, 2012 at 2:05pm

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Oct 25^th, 2012 at 4:08pm:

True or false??,...

the comments in various forums seem to mention this as a supposed fact!

Huh

Well since there is over 150 million Kms of copper phone line (which I'm guessing is what the thread title refers to), and the mantenance cost is $1 million dollars per year......or 0.0064c per km/year.....Sounds like a good deal to me.. Cheesy

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Reply #7 - Oct 26^th, 2012 at 5:38pm

gizmo_2655 wrote on Oct 26^th, 2012 at 2:05pm:

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Oct 25^th, 2012 at 4:08pm:

True or false??,...

the comments in various forums seem to mention this as a supposed fact!

Huh

Well since there is over 150 million Kms of copper phone line (which I'm guessing is what the thread title refers to), and the mantenance cost is $1 million dollars per year......or 0.0064c per km/year.....Sounds like a good deal to me.. Cheesy

It is about the copper phone lines, yes!

I was questioning the figure and I happened to put it in the wrong thread!

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Reply #8 - Oct 26^th, 2012 at 8:22pm

I just got back from the UK. Did you know that the "bronze" coins in the UK are actually copper plated steel nowadays? - and the newer "silver" coins of lower denomination are nickel plated steel. I wondered why the coins were sticking to the magnetic clasp on my phone cover. Very bizarre.

Maybe they could use copper plated steel for transmission lines. The current is mostly along the outside surface of a conductor.

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Reply #9 - Oct 29^th, 2012 at 4:18pm

muso wrote on Oct 26^th, 2012 at 8:22pm:

I just got back from the UK. Did you know that the "bronze" coins in the UK are actually copper plated steel nowadays? - and the newer "silver" coins of lower denomination are nickel plated steel. I wondered why the coins were sticking to the magnetic clasp on my phone cover. Very bizarre.

Maybe they could use copper plated steel for transmission lines. The current is mostly along the outside surface of a conductor.

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