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[–] pendingdeletion 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

No that definitely looks more like a copper pipe than conduit which is typically PVC, steel, zinc… basically nothing that could be confused with copper.

[–] MyDearWatson616 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They should make all electrical conduit out of copper so if there's a short in one of the wires it'll still conduct all the way to where it needs to be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Conduit is commonly conductive. And where conductive should be grounded.

Having the conduit itself be a power transmitting medium would be dangerous as people could touch the live circuit and injure themselves. But you could insulate the conduit making it safe, and essentially turning the conduit/wire inside into a coaxial "cable"...... this would have interesting implications for signal transmission.

[–] MyDearWatson616 1 points 10 months ago

I work with electricity. I was making a joke.