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 is a lot like a water flow where the ocean would be your ground and your voltage would be a height difference.
If you have a lake above water level and it is connected to the ocean, the water will flow from the lake to the ocean.
For the water to get back in the lake you would have to pump it up which requires work. For electricity you would use a generator.
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