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Electron borrowing

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-03 22:13

Ever wonder how many electrons we borrow from the electric companies for our energy bills (aka, paying for electricity)? Say you use like 9600 mWH per hour (a random number), someone here tell me how many electrons are flowing to produce that kind of power. From there you can possibly compare it to your electric bill and figure out how much money we pay per electron. Not too challenging, have a go at it.

For more accurate results, perhaps someone should post the results of one of their electric bills to see some real world results. Have fun.

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-04 2:06

this is a useless argument from the get-go.  we use alternating current, meaning that the electrons don't actually go anywhere, they just drift left and right where they are, and drift speeds encountered in common household circutry is usually in the order of 1x10^-4 meters per second, meaning you can easily outwalk the average electron (their force transmission, however, is near the speed of light depending on a number of factors)

so the answer to the original question is 0.

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