Brooklyn’s Latest Craze: Making Your Own Electric Grid

Re:Brooklyn’s Latest Craze: Making Your Own Electric Grid by bluGill on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:26PM (#14647345)

In an AC power grid, which is what all city scale power grids are these days, there is NO net movement of electrons in the wire. The electron that just went into your "light bulb" will pop out the same wire (not the other) a moment latter without actually reaching the light emitting part. Thus accounting for where the electrons come from is complete nonsense.

The field travels at nearly the speed of light, but there is no movement there.

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Re:Brooklyn’s Latest Craze: Making Your Own Electric Grid by benchaney on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:31PM (#14647400)

Also, electrons are fundamentally indistinguishable, so even in a DC circuit, wondering where they came from is stupid.

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Re:Brooklyn’s Latest Craze: Making Your Own Electric Grid by ethbro on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @04:53PM (#14649327)

I thought the same, until I tried free range, single source electrons.

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Re:Brooklyn’s Latest Craze: Making Your Own Electric Grid by oakwhiz on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @09:41PM (#14651095)

I prefer uniformly spin-aligned electrons.

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Re:Brooklyn’s Latest Craze: Making Your Own Electric Grid by em3rgent0rdr on Friday June 30, 2017 @11:32PM (#14675216)

That is beside the point. THe advantage of trading energy credits with your neighbors is that you don't have to obey the monopoly selling and monopsony purchase price that a traditional electric company dictates.

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