Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world

• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  aluminum can be used too

  Thousands of fires disagree

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    From old electrical connections that weren’t designed for the different rates of expansion of aluminum and copper. Today, most of them are.

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  • fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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

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