On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 10:23:23 -0500, "Wild_Bill"
wrote:

I don't see the earlier comment, but from the links and the search question,
I presume the conversation was about a circuit term referred to as "return".

A lot f folks are fixated on naming one power lead as "return", when there
is nothng related to any sort of "return" taking place in a circuit.

Nonsense.

There are 2 conductors.. and one is a higher potential than the other.
That's all there is to it, but you'll probably never fnd ths statement in
any text book.

You can't have current without a closed loop.

The power is disspated at the load, and there is nothing to return to any
other location.

No current = no power.

I don't know where the fantasy of a return originated, but there is none iin
an electrical circuit.

You're blind.

Hydraulic circuit, yes, thre is generally always a return line.. for obvious
reasons.

The same reasons.

The earth, meaning the planet, is not half of an electrical crcuit.. with
maybe one exception being lightning strikes.

It certainly can be, but isn't normally.

Hills and terrain affect RF energy, and the ground/earth at the base of an
antenna is often imbedded with conductors to form a ground plane.

Irrelevant.

Electrical circuts deliver power to an appliance, tool, light bulb etc as
the two differing potentials, and the power is disspated as heat, light,
motion etc at the device beng powered.

Now talk about the other half of the story.

It is aburd to belive that power is returned thru many miles of distribution
gear and back to the generation source, or that it's returned thru the soil.

It's absurd to deny the fact that a "return" exists.

Yet, the majorty of folks believe and continue to express/repeat this
concept.

....and they're correct.