▲ 334 ▼ Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world (www.earth.com) submitted 1 year ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world 109 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world -11 points 1 year ago (2 children) aluminum can be used too Thousands of fires disagree permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] frezik@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago From old electrical connections that weren't designed for the different rates of expansion of aluminum and copper. Today, most of them are. permalink fedilink source parent [–] fullsquare@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago this was before we figured out that you can use stranded aluminum wire and it's fine this way that, or copper clad aluminum permalink fedilink source parent
[–] frezik@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago From old electrical connections that weren't designed for the different rates of expansion of aluminum and copper. Today, most of them are. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago this was before we figured out that you can use stranded aluminum wire and it's fine this way that, or copper clad aluminum permalink fedilink source parent