The growing global need for copper, and the amount required to power the transition of all nations to clean energy, is not sustainable.
  • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1. Distribution doesn’t just include long distance distribution. It includes all the wiring between transformers and houses and all the internal wiring of the house and all the devices inside etc.
    • fullsquare@awful.systemsEnglish
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      only residential wiring uses copper, everything from 350kV down to 400V lines is aluminum, and even in houses aluminum can be used too

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

        • fullsquare@awful.systemsEnglish
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          this was before we figured out that you can use stranded aluminum wire and it’s fine this way

          that, or copper clad aluminum

    • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
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      And that part is entirely independent from whether the electricity is generated with solar, wind or fossil fuels.