floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoGeologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire worldwww.earth.comexternal-linkmessage-square111fedilinkarrow-up1420arrow-down182
arrow-up1338arrow-down1external-linkGeologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire worldwww.earth.comfloofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square111fedilink
minus-squaresurewhynotlem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down12·1 month ago aluminum can be used too Thousands of fires disagree
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 month agoFrom old electrical connections that weren’t designed for the different rates of expansion of aluminum and copper. Today, most of them are.
minus-squarefullsquare@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agothis was before we figured out that you can use stranded aluminum wire and it’s fine this way that, or copper clad aluminum
Thousands of fires disagree
From old electrical connections that weren’t designed for the different rates of expansion of aluminum and copper. Today, most of them are.
this was before we figured out that you can use stranded aluminum wire and it’s fine this way
that, or copper clad aluminum