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[TenTec] electron flow vs. current flow

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Subject: [TenTec] electron flow vs. current flow
From: tacquire@earthlink.net (Dan)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:49:34 -0700
As if most people CAN or ever really DO understand that! :)

Dan

"Avila, Edward" wrote:

> Sherrill actually, you'll find (as I did 15 years ago) math is the more
> elegant and precise way of explaining electronics theory....usually no more
> difficult than high school trig. /k6sdw
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sherrill WATKINS [mailto:SEWATKINS@dgs.state.va.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 1:03 PM
> To: tacquire@earthlink.net
> Cc: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] electron flow vs. current flow
>
> Fascinating!  However, the more I read about electrical theory the less I
> know and the more confused I become.    Will someone please explain in
> common english and without math just how the flow of electric current
> through the ground causes a gas pipeline to corrode?? ( Next we will tackle
> how a lightning strike is a complete circuit?) - Thank's- sherrill  k4own
>
> >>> Dan <tacquire@earthlink.net> 10/18/00 03:52PM >>>
>
> In reality lightning is a complete loop like any circuit.  Don't know if
> this has been mentioned here before or not but there is even positive and
> negative lightning,, so named because of where it initiates, positive earth
> to negative clouds or the other way around. In other words whether or not it
> starts from the clounds goes to earth and comes back, or starts from earth
> goes to clouds and comes back.
>
> Neat stuff anyway :)
>
> Sherrill WATKINS wrote:
>
> > Actually, I believe it was Benjamin Franklin who postulated in about circa
> 1750 that electricity flows because of an attraction from positive to
> negative poles.  Also, it was Franklin that postulated the theory (correct)
> that lightning is the flow of electric charges and therefore offered the
> first scientific explanation that lightning is the flow of electricity.
> Franklin also postulated correctly that lightning will favor an attraction
> to a point over a sphere or flat surface and from this he correctly
> developed the theory of the lightning rod, now called the "air terminal".
> However, my cathodic protection engineer friend is adamant that current
> flows from positive to negative. - sherrill  k4own
> >
> > >>> "Dan Cox" <tacquire@earthlink.net> 10/18/00 02:43PM >>>
> > hehe, it's really amazing that the myth ever got started.  Supposedly it
> was
> > easier around the turn of the century to explain electricity if you
> > explained it in the reverse of how it actually works..  Imagine these
> > people's confusion when they started learning about vacuum tubes for
> > instance!  The logic just DOES NOT work!!
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sherrill WATKINS" <SEWATKINS@dgs.state.va.us>
> > To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 10:47 AM
> > Subject: [TenTec] electron flow vs. current flow
> >
> > >
> > > A friend of mine, who is a cathodic protection engineer, states that in
> > the cathodic (corrosion) protection business,  he installs sacrificial
> > anodes on buried gas piplines to protect against corrosion.  He also
> states
> > that  current flows from the positive to the negative pole but electrons
> > flow from the negative to the positive pole!  -  Sherrill   k4own
> > >
> > >
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