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Aluminium is a) strong b) light c) fairly cheap d) not a terrible conductor of electricity. It's much stronger, lighter, and cheaper than any material that conducts electricity significantly better than aluminium does.

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Well, if you're making wires for long-distance power transmission, having the wires be strong and light means you can put the towers further apart, which is a significant savings. In fact, aluminium is SO light that you can make the wire thicker (which makes it even stronger), and since power-carrying-capacity increases with increased cross-sectional area, the fact that it doesn't conduct as well as, say, copper becomes less important. And aluminium is so much cheaper than copper that even the thicker aluminium wire is cheaper than a copper wire of the same carrying capacity.

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