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Electricity, Manufacturing, Touch
Category: Science > Physics Asked by: pks16-ga List Price: $20.00 |
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04 Oct 2005 14:28 PDT
Expires: 03 Nov 2005 13:28 PST Question ID: 576350 |
Do you manufacture electricity and is electricity considered to be a tangible product? |
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Re: Electricity, Manufacturing, Touch
Answered By: hedgie-ga on 13 Oct 2005 07:32 PDT |
Answer depends on a classification one accepts. According to common use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_(business) electricity is a comodity. It is not tangible. Tangible product has has physical extent. Contrast with Service. http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/brauch/demo/product-theory/TANGIBLE-PRODUCT.html By common meaning tangible means Discernible by the touch; palpable: a tangible roughness of the skin. Possible to touch. Possible to be treated as fact; real or concrete: tangible evidence. Possible to understand or realize: the tangible benefits of the plan. Law. That can be valued monetarily: tangible property. http://www.answers.com/tangible&r=67 So -it is not tangible (Do no test this by tryng to touch it!) and it is not manufactured (made by hand (manualy) or made by humans) http://www.answers.com/manufactured&r=67 If you want to be scientific (category you chose), people do not buy electricity (electrons are around for free) but energy, and to be really exact, they do nor buy just any energy, but energy they can control and direct - one can say a prepared negative entropy. Negentropy is useful, but it is not a tangible product. |
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Re: Electricity, Manufacturing, Touch
From: neilzero-ga on 04 Oct 2005 18:02 PDT |
In my opinion yes and yes. I can't think of a simular commodity. One unique thing about electricity is it must be used within mili-seconds of the time it is manufactured. Neil |
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Re: Electricity, Manufacturing, Touch
From: qed100-ga on 04 Oct 2005 19:00 PDT |
I suppose it depends on what you mean by "manufacture". Certainly electric *current* is made available on demand by a controlled industrial process. But on the other hand, the electrically charged particles, electrons, which are the conductors of current, aren't manufactured by the electric power providers. The power company uses electrons which have been present in the environment indefinitely long. That's not to say that human intervention cannot manufacture electrons. In high energy laboratories quantities of electrons can be produced, given that an equal number of anti-electrons are made simultaneously. (The production of matched pairs of particle/anti-particle in the lab is itself facilitated by electric power, made available by commercial providers.) But the providers of domestic power don't need to make new electric charge. They need only to have some source of energy which can be used to do work on the electronic charges in a wire. |
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Re: Electricity, Manufacturing, Touch
From: myoarin-ga on 05 Oct 2005 09:01 PDT |
"Do you manufacture electricity and is electricity considered to be a tangible product?" The common and more correct expression is to "generate" electricity: to bring into existance, cause to be; to produce by a chemical process; to create by a vital or natural process - to take some definitions from the dictionary, OR Google: search with define:generate Now search with define:manufacture and you will find many examples, almost all of them resulting in a product, something tangible: you can touch it, take it with you if it is not too big, it is an article, one of similar articles manufactured in the same way. For my thinking, electricity is not a tangible product, hence the use of another verb to describe its production. |
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