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Gilb
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01 Apr 2007, 1:57 pm

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01 Apr 2007, 10:41 pm

Psst...today is April Fool's.

Given that this story was posted on Slashdot today, it must be fake. :P



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01 Apr 2007, 11:05 pm

Individual electrons in a circuit moves very slow (in the case of DC) or only back and forth (in the case of AC).



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02 Apr 2007, 6:09 am

oww it didn't fool anyone :( :(
(i did hide a message in that post)



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02 Apr 2007, 2:57 pm

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Individual electrons in a circuit moves very slow (in the case of DC) or only back and forth (in the case of AC).


Hmmm. Yes. So where do they move to? AC components would last longer it seems.



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02 Apr 2007, 3:13 pm

hyperbolic wrote:
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Individual electrons in a circuit moves very slow (in the case of DC) or only back and forth (in the case of AC).


Hmmm. Yes. So where do they move to? AC components would last longer it seems.


They piggyback from atom to atom. The electrons themselves go in a circle. You don't run out of them, you run out of the electric potential that drives them.