Jim Kelley wrote:
That's because power doesn't propagate, and
I hasten to add - neither do Poynting vectors. Nor does power reflect,
refract, or diffract. Power is a rate at which energy is transferred,
absorbed, or dissipated. It's not a wave which propagates. It's a
mathematical product of two of the characteristics of a wave that
propagates.

I'm not arguing with you but as with all words, it depends upon how
one defines "power". You have your own personal narrow definition.
The power industry has a different definition.
Even the field of RF engineering has a definition of power
different from yours. The IEEE Dictionary has 11 pages of definitions
dealing with power including the "power reflection coefficient",
"power density of a traveling wave", "radiated power", "power-flow
vector", "power transfer", "power 'carried' by a waveguide" ...

Why don't you visit your local power company, call a meeting of their
engineers, and inform them that there is no power flowing in their
transmission lines? :-)
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp