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

Question

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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Answer 1

There is a lot of misconception about how power flows through power lines due to the incorrect teaching that elections flow down a power line. Give these videos a view, they explain the use of electricity and magnetism together get power working.

Part 1 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIhgxav9LY

Part 2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI_X2cMHNe0