In case the absurdity of this argument that JamStone is making has not been made clear enough, let's ponder this. If one has electrical equipment, then from time to time the electrical equipment will break down, and be thrown out with the rest of the garbage. Are we seriously supposed to consider it plausible that every bit of this hypothetical electical equipment that broke down, over the centuries, was carried off to some secret place in the desert, apparently to keep the secret safe from 21st century archaeologists?

I can already hear somebody saying "metal was precious in those days, and it would have been scavenged". Unless the equipment was lost in a Nile flood, and buried in the mud. That never happened? Or if an item was stolen by a Libyan raiding party, and dropped in the nearby desert after the party began to be pursued. Or ... and the list of possibilities goes on and on. An electrified Egypt would have left us with a wealth of recognizable junk, floating to the surface through the centuries.

Besides which, not all of the junk produced by an electrification program will necessarily be metallic. The paddles for a turbine, in an era when metal was so expensive, could just as well be made out of wood. Look at out own waterwheels. If even the relatively easily produced copper was being so desperately scavenged, that wire was being salvaged, then why would our hypothetical Pharaonic electrical engineers have built the paddles out of what, in a wet environment, would have been a far more expensive, and less durable material? Or, are we now supposed to take seriously the plausibility of the Egyptians developing stainless steel before this "possible" electrification program, as well? With not a single piece of such a metal managing to survive down through the ages?

So, there you have it. Where are the broken turbines, the burned out motors, the wealth of industrial junk that one would expect to see, by sheer chance, given how many opportunities there would be for some of it to survive?

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