[Elecraft] Items you think you can depend on

[Dauer, Edward]

OK, I have to ask this question seriously even though this thread has become a spoof.

Is it really the same electrons that flow from the municipal generator to our rigs and then back to the powerhouse again?  I would have guessed that any individual electron motivated by an applied voltage would simply have moved an atomic diameter or two to fill in a spot in an adjacent depleted valence shell, such that a current flow is actually a shuffling of electrons from one positive ion to the next, but that individual electrons really don’t move very far.  And then they all shuffle back the other way every one sixtieth of a second.  Sort of like cars on Route 128 around Boston, as I recall from my days there.  On the other hand, maybe the uncertainties in the quantum wave function preclude our ever knowing an electron’s position anyway, in which case the question is moot, right?

For those who care to respond, be kind.  I am a lawyer, not a physicist.  I will return the graciousness if anyone has a question about the mediaeval origins of the writ of coram nobis.  Off-line, of course.

Ted, KN1CBR



On 09/04/2017 01:26 PM, Bob Steding wrote:
*This means that an electric company can sell a customer the same batch of
electricity thousands of times a day and never get caught, since very few
customers take the time to examine their electricity closely. In fact, the
last year any new electricity was generated was 1937.*

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net<mailto:k6dgw at foothill.net>> wrote:
Yes indeed!  For many years, unscrupulous electric power companies have
been capitalizing on the fact that they send electrons to our house and
charge us for them, we toast the bread with them, and then ... get this ...
the electrons we paid for go back to the power company!!  They get away
with this because none of us ever inspect our electricity closely.

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County