• MyDearWatson616@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    They should make all electrical conduit out of copper so if there’s a short in one of the wires it’ll still conduct all the way to where it needs to be.

    • ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      Conduit is commonly conductive. And where conductive should be grounded.

      Having the conduit itself be a power transmitting medium would be dangerous as people could touch the live circuit and injure themselves. But you could insulate the conduit making it safe, and essentially turning the conduit/wire inside into a coaxial “cable”… this would have interesting implications for signal transmission.