{"id":131435,"date":"2021-11-29T10:22:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T18:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-big-misconception-about-electricity"},"modified":"2021-11-29T10:22:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T18:22:50","slug":"the-big-misconception-about-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-big-misconception-about-electricity","title":{"rendered":"The Big Misconception About Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bHIhgxav9LY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Prepare to be Baffled.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The misconception is that electrons carry potential energy around a complete conducting loop, transferring their energy to the load. This video was sponsored by Cas\u00e9ta by Lutron.<\/p>\n<p>Further analysis of the large circuit is available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/ve42.co\/bigcircuit\">https:\/\/ve42.co\/bigcircuit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Dr Geraint Lewis for bringing up this question in the first place and discussing it with us. Check out his and Dr Chris Ferrie\u2019s new book here: <a href=\"https:\/\/ve42.co\/Universe2021\">https:\/\/ve42.co\/Universe2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Dr Robert Olsen for his expertise. He quite literally wrote the book on transmission lines, which you can find here: <a href=\"https:\/\/ve42.co\/Olsen2018\">https:\/\/ve42.co\/Olsen2018<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-big-misconception-about-electricity\">Continue reading \u201cThe Big Misconception About Electricity\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prepare to be Baffled. The misconception is that electrons carry potential energy around a complete conducting loop, transferring their energy to the load. This video was sponsored by Cas\u00e9ta by Lutron. Further analysis of the large circuit is available here: https:\/\/ve42.co\/bigcircuit. Special thanks to Dr Geraint Lewis for bringing up this question in the first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":642,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/642"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}