Based on the laws of electrodynamics, energy cannot flow in the same direction as the electric current. According to the Poynting vector, electric power will flow anywhere there is both an electric field and a magnetic field. The consequences may surprise you.
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VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS
Does Electricity REALLY Flow?
https://youtu.be/QKxep82_9b8
What the HECK are Magnets?
https://youtu.be/XczMRsiq9mk
You Do NOT "Charge" A Battery!
http://youtu.be/cPQbkTkGsnI
What the HECK is Energy?
https://youtu.be/snj1wBtn6I8
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OTHER SOURCES
http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_27.html
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Waves/emwv.html#c2
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/engfie.html
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LINKS TO COMMENTS
Alternating Current:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bVi1w0m8x8&lc=Ugz38HXq9zTO95jYoex4AaABAg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKxep82_9b8&lc=UgzAkaCS3u0wVSDK0E54AaABAg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKxep82_9b8&lc=UgweBAK4giCzqE1-7Y14AaABAg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKxep82_9b8&lc=UgzO6qrhnU-69Zp4Isl4AaABAg
TURN DOWN FOR WATT?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKxep82_9b8&lc=Ugx-tYSBCV0jEd6lfql4AaABAg
Perpetual Motion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bVi1w0m8x8&lc=UgxZyHCcDQdZj8zsj5Z4AaABAg
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IMAGE CREDITS
John Henry Poynting:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Henry_Poynting.jpg
Ben Franklin:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin_Franklin_by_Joseph_Duplessis_1778.jpg
JJ Thomson:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J.J_Thomson.jpg