eli5: how do you go from generator to toaster power?

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It has always been a question of mine that ive never gotten answered in a way that I understand. Like, how do you go from motion in my generator to electricity for my toaster? how does the energy go from spinny-magnet in the box outside to lightning in my walls? I don’t understand.

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Moving magnetic field creates electric field. That’s the law. If you move a magnet, it creates a field which drags electrons. Electrons being dragged is electric current.

So spinning some magnets around coils drives current through those coils. Connect your toster to the coils and you got yourself a toast 🙂

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