Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world
fullsquare@awful.systems 4 weeks agoonly residential wiring uses copper, everything from 350kV down to 400V lines is aluminum, and even in houses aluminum can be used too
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Thousands of fires disagree
frezik@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
From old electrical connections that weren’t designed for the different rates of expansion of aluminum and copper. Today, most of them are.
fullsquare@awful.systems 4 weeks ago
this was before we figured out that you can use stranded aluminum wire and it’s fine this way
that, or copper clad aluminum