ELI5- why do we need to find different ways to generate electricity if the main thing is turning the turbine? Can’t people turn it manually?

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ELI5- why do we need to find different ways to generate electricity if the main thing is turning the turbine? Can’t people turn it manually?

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A person can manually crank at maybe 200 watts.

That’ll power a medium-sized PC.

So for every computer in the world would need to be a person on a treadmill.

And that doesn’t speak for factories, cars, lighting, heating…

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