Comment on If power the rate at which energy is transferred, then does that transference have a speed? And have we or can we measure it?

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brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Well. It depends. And I’m not talking about relativity, set that aside.

The time it takes electrical power to get from a source to a destination (for example) isn’t instant, nor a constant. In practice, it’s affected by all sorts of initial conditions and their state through time, like impedance along the line. Or, more practically, what very complicated PWM voltage controllers are doing when you flip a switch.

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