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Sorry hutch for being ignorant, what you have in mind is likely over my head. I was making allusion to Allan's mention of "the real energy flow" when he mentions Poynting vector. I understood it as "the total energy flux". I am just saying that Poynting's vector is not the whole energy flux inside the wire.hutchphd said:I do not understand this straw man. One cannot build a wire using classical elctromagnetic theory alone. Of course the energy supplied by the influx indicated by the Poynting vector will end up as heat (there are alternate degrees of freedom afforded by QM). This heat will diffuse essentially isotropically.
A wire is complicated. Why is this interesting?
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