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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Imagine electrons as little blue pixies.
These pixies don’t like the “noise” (moving magnetic field made by the generator) so they try to run away from it. The bigger the noise the harder they try to move away from it (voltage) and the more they will push on the pixies ahead of them to do this.
They only have this tube to run away down though (a wire) and when it’s big this is OK as there’s lots of room for the pixies to run BUT we put a small wire (like the one in your toaster) in the way and they all bunch up and can’t get through as easily and they “rub together” as the pixies behind them are pushing them through the small wire. This creates a lot of heat that we use to toast our bread
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