I know that electricity doesn’t just dissolve in the ground, it must return to the power source. But once the electricity is in the grounding device, how does it find its way back to the substation if it can be relatively far away?
Edit: I know ground isn’t used in normal working mode and where I live there’s no grounding in sockets.
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Electricity flows sort of like how water flows, from an area with a lot of it to an area with less of it. It can move along whatever path you give it, but it will always only flow downhill, from high to low.
“Ground” is like a drain for electricity. It will always be lower, so any overflow will always be safely drained away.
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