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Essentially you need loose electrons to conduct.
But maybe you could have different organic crystalline structures allowing AC currents to flow. Wildly speculating of course.. I was just hoping to tape in forest materials to manufacture low power electric devices :)
The next step would be to mandate fibre cables in all new housing. Along with ONT and Router in one solution.
"Phone line with 1 broken wire still gets ADSL2"
https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/9yzp5wr3
Anyway, my hat is off to the people who designed and implemented ADSL.
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But maybe you could have different organic crystalline structures allowing AC currents to flow. Wildly speculating of course.. I was just hoping to tape in forest materials to manufacture low power electric devices :)
Graphite counts; if you want to manufacture it from forest materials, compressed bonded charcoal might work. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01675...
Thanks a lot for the link though. Are you into green electronics by any means ?
Wet string? OK, fine. But I defy ADSL to work over something really challenging. Like Telstra copper in Australia.
Our homes' water supplies are untapped options for data connectivity.
Presuming you have water pipes to your property, could be easier than digging up roads etc.
Only issue might be if you have a leak and need to shut off your water!!
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/09/uk-launch...
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Potentially apocryphal, but Telstra's copper cable network supposedly had its insulation made of paper, not rubber. I remember when it rained the curbside pits fill with water, causing slowdowns and frequent ADSL dropouts (until things dried out).
I think this is common in places where they don't expect moisture to reach, but then things change and it gets there anyway. If your POTS lines are down and the telecom company is telling you a "wet pulp repair" is underway, your phones are going to be down for a while because a bunch of paper-insulated cables need to be manually rewired because they got wet and corroded. I found this interesting: http://etler.com/do…
https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/46433
>only 10% of the HDMI RMCD met an acceptable EMC quality of at least 50 dB coupling attenuation
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Potentially apocryphal, but Telstra's copper cable network supposedly had its insulation made of paper, not rubber. I remember when it rained the curbside pits fill with water, causing slowdowns and frequent ADSL dropouts (until things dried out).
I think this is common in places where they don't expect moisture to reach, but then things change and it gets there anyway. If your POTS lines are down and the telecom company is telling you a "wet pulp repair" is underway, your phones are going to be down for a while because a bunch of paper-insulated cables need to be manually rewired because they got wet and corroded. I found this interesting: http://etler.com/do…
In order to keep it dry, the conduit that the pulp lines are run through is pressurized to 5-10psi. Anyone that has worked with air compressors knows that pumping ambient pressurized air down into underground pipes is a recipe for condensation, so high capacity air driers are required to remove the water before it goes underground.
Any kind of outage on the compressor or dryer is effectively an emergency because water infiltration can happen almost immediately, creating an outage and extremely expensive repair.