Herman
As you realize, In a DC circuit the energy flows very fast from source to load and the electrons drift very slowly around the circuit. In an AC circuit the energy also travels very fast from source to load while the electrons vibrate back and forth, they do not drift. Despite these facts Mr. Q insists that they are flowing along the wire in an AC circuit.
Your "facts" are wrong.
They do indeed drift. With no drift there is no current flow. You are arguing that in an AC circuit, there is no current. This is simply absurd and demonstrates that you're rather out of your depth here.
I think the confusion may arise from the term alternating current and thinking that current, like a river, is something that must flow.
Where there is current, there is flow. Whether the flow is in one direction, or alternately in both directions.
Reading back through my posts I admit I could have been clearer in my explanations.
You're quite clear when you claim that there is no drift of electrons under AC conditions. And you're just as clearly incorrect. No drift, no current. Simple as that.
I have the sneaky suspicion that Mr Q understands this better than he explains it too, but insisting that electrons flow from the power plant to the house like water flows from the pump station to the house makes it hard to come to common ground (no pun intended.)
I never insisted any such thing.
What I said was that power is ultimately delivered to your home as the consequence of electrons flowing in the wires of the distribution system.
That's not the same as saying that an electron at the power generator ends up in your computer monitor.
