ElI5 Where does electricity go?

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If electricity is electrons, do appliances ”consume” electrons ? Or do the electrons only ”go through” the appliance, then back to the grid? Wouldn’t that cause a build-up in the grid?
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Think of it as a conveyer belt the motor is the battery/power source. The belt is essentially the wires and, more specifically, electrons, and the roller at the other end is the item being powered. The motor moves the belt or the electrons The belt is not consumed, but the energy from the movement of the belt is. This is the electrons moving between individual atoms in wires

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