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What is the advantage of an aluminium conductor used in a high voltage electrical transmission line?
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∙ 13y ago
Aluminum is the most useful thing since sliced bread. The best conductor and fast to transmit data. If you use steel or something you'd have to wait about 5ms to get the sound through. I think Aluminum is about 1.5ms.
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