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2. Underground power line - Wikipedia

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   An underground power line provides electrical power with underground cables. Compared to overhead power lines, underground lines have lower risk of starting a wildfire and reduce the risk of the electrical supply being interrupted by outages during high winds, thunderstorms or heavy snow or ice storms. An added benefit of undergrounding is the ...

3. Electrical conduit - Wikipedia

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   An electrical conduit is a tube used to protect and route electrical wiring in a building or structure. Electrical conduit may be made of metal, plastic, fiber, or fired clay. Most conduit is rigid, but flexible conduit is used for some purposes. Conduit is generally installed by electricians at the site of installation of electrical equipment.

4. Utility tunnel - Wikipedia

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   A utility tunnel, utility corridor, or utilidor is a passage built underground or above ground to carry utility lines such as electricity, steam, water supply pipes, and sewer pipes. Communications utilities like fiber optics, cable television, and telephone cables are also sometimes carried.

5. Workers at Elon Musk’s Boring Co. accidentally dug ... - AOL

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   Both incidents add to a series of safety episodes that have taken place since the Boring Company began work to expand its existing tunnel system—currently a 2.4-mile, one-way underground conduit ...

6. Electrical wiring - Wikipedia

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   Topside of firestop with penetrants consisting of electrical conduit on the left and a bus duct on the right. The firestop consists of firestop mortar on top and rockwool on the bottom, for a two-hour fire-resistance rating. For very high currents in electrical apparatus, and for high currents distributed through a building, bus bars can be used.

7. Power cable - Wikipedia

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   Electrical power cables are sometimes installed in raceways, including electrical conduit and cable trays, which may contain one or more conductors. When it is intended to be used inside a building, nonmetallic sheathed building cable (NM-B) consists of two or more wire conductors (plus a grounding conductor) enclosed inside a thermoplastic ...