@floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 days agoGeologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire worldwww.earth.comexternal-linkmessage-square109fedilinkarrow-up1416arrow-down181
arrow-up1335arrow-down1external-linkGeologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire worldwww.earth.com@floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 days agomessage-square109fedilink
minus-square@masterspace@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish8•6 days ago Distribution doesn’t just include long distance distribution. It includes all the wiring between transformers and houses and all the internal wiring of the house and all the devices inside etc.
minus-square@fullsquare@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglish19•6 days agoonly residential wiring uses copper, everything from 350kV down to 400V lines is aluminum, and even in houses aluminum can be used too
minus-square@surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish-11•6 days ago aluminum can be used too Thousands of fires disagree
minus-square@frezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglish14•6 days agoFrom old electrical connections that weren’t designed for the different rates of expansion of aluminum and copper. Today, most of them are.
minus-square@fullsquare@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglish9•6 days agothis was before we figured out that you can use stranded aluminum wire and it’s fine this way that, or copper clad aluminum
minus-square@Saleh@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglish6•6 days agoAnd that part is entirely independent from whether the electricity is generated with solar, wind or fossil fuels.
only residential wiring uses copper, everything from 350kV down to 400V lines is aluminum, and even in houses aluminum can be used too
Thousands of fires disagree
From old electrical connections that weren’t designed for the different rates of expansion of aluminum and copper. Today, most of them are.
this was before we figured out that you can use stranded aluminum wire and it’s fine this way
that, or copper clad aluminum
And that part is entirely independent from whether the electricity is generated with solar, wind or fossil fuels.