That's not exactly correct. Electrons don't flow through wires - there's a one-way flow of the ambient electrons around the wire from the field created.
That video is misleading. Electrons must be relatively loose in their orbitals in order for the electromagnetic field to be established with reasonable strength. This does not mean that electricity is the literal flow of electrons. However, electrons actually do flow at a speed of about 1 mm/min due to the electrostatic field in DC circuits. This is not what’s called electricity but they do flow.
You're confusing the electrons and the electromagnetic fields. The electrons absolutely do migrate through the wires; the electric field does not. P.S. that video appears to have been written to confuse/generate controversy and does a terrible job of actually explaining.
> The electrons absolutely do migrate through the wires;
That’s true. But very slowly in electrical terms. If I remember right the actual electronics in a reasonable circuit I read about was something like 1” per second. The vast majority of work done is an electron shuffle of bouncing into the next one in space.
When you say "work", what do you mean? I get the impression you're talking about a model like there's a long tube full of ball-bearings and when you push one in, one drops out the other end?
That model isn't right; think about a transformer - energy is transferred between conductors that are not physically connected at all.
The idea that electrons "push each other" is misleading and an oversimplification.
Watch the video. Like waves in the ocean, are water molecules pushing each other and making the wave? Or is the wave carrying the molecules with itself? Or both things at the same time?
Well .. they do flow in the conductor, and in particular they flow through silicon junctions or none of the semiconductor physics would make sense, but the energy is carried in the field which is indeed outside the conductor.
But maybe you could have different organic crystalline structures allowing AC currents to flow. Wildly speculating of course.. I was just hoping to tape in forest materials to manufacture low power electric devices :)
