What is imaginary current/power in electricity?

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What is imaginary current/power in electricity?

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If you hook a perfect capacitor up to an AC power line, current will go through it, but it won’t use any energy itself, the energy stored in it comes back out of it. That’s imaginary power. It still produces real current, but there’s no work done.

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