My father wanted to kill a mole by putting a steel pipe into the ground and connecting live wire to it. I thought it would cause the short circuit but it didn’t. Why?
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I would imagine it’s because:
A, your father seems to have forgotten to put the neutral wire into the earth with a long steel pipe, thus there was no circuit and there must always be a circuit before current can flow.
And B, IIRC the ground plug isn’t so much to conduct any actual energy down into the earth, but is more so to equalize the installation with the environment to prevent misbehaviour due to strange voltage difference between the powerplant and the house installation.
Meaning that basically the ground doesn’t conduct well enough to zap moles, only enough to get rid of some crooked volts.
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