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Energy doesn't travel 'around' a circuit. It travels from the supply to the load. And it isn't delivered to the load by the current. It doesn't even travel through the wires. It travels as a result of what is called the 'Poynting's Field' which acts perpendicularly to both the electric and magnetic fields.

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