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size=2>From: David Riceman <A
href="mailto:driceman@att.net">driceman@att.net</A><BR><BR><<You are not
bringing the water into existence by opening the faucet. <BR>But it seems
to me there is no pool of electricity sitting <BR>there someplace, no puddles of
electricity sitting in the wires.>> [--TK]<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>>>(a) Where do you think the electrons go? (b) What about a
circuit with <BR>a battery? Why isn't a battery a "pool of electricity"?
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size=2>I don't know where electrons "go" but I do know that water, even if it
isn't flowing, is still water, whereas electrons, if they are not flowing, are
not electricity. Whatever a battery is -- in truth, it's a very mysterious
object (cf. Arthur C. Clarke, "sufficiently advanced technology
indistinguishable from magic") -- well a battery, I say, does not "hold"
electricity the way a plastic bottle holds water. When the electrons
are not flowing there is no actual electricity in the
battery, electricity only comes into being when the battery is
attached to something and that something is turned on and a circuit is
completed. I have an idea that we so to speak "manufacture" electricity
(but we do not manufacture water) by turning on the device that makes the
electrons flow. (Maybe somebody who actually knows this subject can
explain to me what I'm talking about.) :- )</DIV>
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