How do turbines/generators turn rotational force into electricity?

Question

What is actually happening inside the generator, and where is it drawing the electrons that make up the current from?

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Answer 1

When a magnet moves past a coil of wire it sort of drags on the electrons in the wire and makes electricity. Simple generators have spinning magnets in the middle and coils of wire in the outside so that lots of magnets move past the coils very fast.