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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ELI5
Electricity is transmitted with electons inside wires. The spinny metal thing in the generator tugs on the electrons in a specific way to create electricity. That transported trough wires to your home and into your toaster.
Your toaster is designed when electricity is flowing, the same tugging of the generator, the heating element heats up.
This is the most basic explanation.
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ELI10
There are a few more steps between the power plant and your toaster. The generator is huge the toaster is little, if you would put your toaster directly on the generator it would burn out.
Transformers (not optimus prime) used to distribute the tugs and make them bigger or smaller. 2 coil of wires put in a certain way and with certain number of coilings make the tugs smaller
Big ones are connected to the HUGE wires from the power plant and a smaller one to the region, a smaller one to a city and a smaller one to your street and into your home.
The heating element in your toaster reduces the tugs because the work they do, that is why a generator needs fuel so the tugs can be put back to a certain level. so everyone can get some energy from them
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This is extremely oversimplified, but it need to be done without going into details like electromagnetism, voltage and amperage.
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