eli5, If electricity is moving electrons, does the generator get them back?

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So a generator is magnets and copper coil yeah? They make electricity and electricity is moving electrons. Power generators and electric stations are kilometres away. Do the copper coils get their electrons back?
Won’t the copper coil run out of electrons. How the electrons come back (if they do)?

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Think of the electrons like water in a very large section of Horizontal pipe with an upright opening at each end and is brimming full of water.

You tip a bucket of water in one end and water overflows off the other end.

The water that overflows is not the “same” water you tipped in.

The ” movement” of electrons in a conductor is like this

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