In high school I learned that gas for coal, wind for wind mill, and tide for water, cause a turbine to spin and that powers an electrical generator and then boom we have electricity. What I want to know is how does the generator convert the kinetic energy of the turbine into electrical energy.
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It’s just like an electric motor, except in reverse. In fact you can take an electric motor and use it to generate electricity if you find another power source to cause it to spin.
There’s all different types of electric motors, but they all involve using electricity to create a magnetic force that moves objects attached to the shaft, which causes the shaft to spin.
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