Driving past a field of wind turbines and trying to channel my understanding of waves and energy to remember how these work
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Wind pushes on the turbine blades when it blows. The shape of the blades makes the entire blade assembly rotate when pushed by the wind. The rotating top spins an generator, which is a magnet and a coil of wire. As the magnet and wire move relative each other, an electrical current is induced in the wire. This current is electricity.
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