eli5 why can’t we harness earths magnetic field to create electricity?

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From my understanding when a magnetic field passes through a coil it generates a current. What prevents us from being able to create a coil that can harness earths magnetic field to generate a current/electricity? Would it need to be huge? Is the earths magnetic field to low? Idk I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently and I just don’t understand why it wouldn’t work.

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The key part you’re missing is electricity would only be generated when a changing magnetic field passes through a coil

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