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How does electricity get to my wall socket? (civilizationscalelevers.substack.com)
5 points by sebg 18 days ago
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I believe electricity is the closest thing to magic among the natural forces that we have managed to tame more or less. The entire history of humanity is a story of how we learned more cleverly to exploit the fact that the electron is a negatively charged particle, even the human being itself, and life itself, is a proton gradient across the mitochondrial membrane, where the flow of protons drives the rotation of ATP synthase and produces the energy of life
It literally rides a bus