Comments by "sogerc1" (@sogerc1) on "The Big Misconception About Electricity" video.

  1.  @mustafaaliabd3021  Actually it's a less physical explanation. That energy transfer field is not a physical field, it's a mathematical tool, and Derek is mixing it up with the real-world electric field.
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  2. Well, if people think you're paying for electrons with your power bill that's the fault of the american school system, the electron's respond to the electric field in the wire and man do we wish if they didn't, that's what superconductors are all about. And this video is very sensationalist because it mixes up that academic field of energy transfer with the real-world electric field. Derek, you better get those extra long wires because your explanation is like swiss cheese. Yes, the electric field is used to transfer energy, but you said it yourself, air is used to insulate power lines, so why does air not insulate in your example? Furthermore, if we'd actually did the experiment it's possible that the light would indeed light up as fast as this 1/c (which is by the way not a unit of time) but it's not because energy flows like this or that I'm thinking more of the parasitic capacity of those two extra long lines so close together, and so Derek's theory wouldn't work in other setups.
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  3.  derekbd  I've seen it. That experiment should've been included in this video, because his point did not come through in this video.
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  4.  @rockabyebaby6111  Quitter talk.
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