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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Just imagine you having a marble inside of an hose, and you want to move it to the other side without lifting the hose, you squeeze the hose and follow the marble through.

Thats just like a generator, only the generator does not move a marble, but electrons in the atoms. An atom can only hold x amounts of electrons and push the electrons to your toaster (just like water in a hose). Since the wires are connected in a loop, they will continue untill the magnetic field in the generator stop moving.

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