This feels like a stupid question but the only answers I can find are over simplifications or crazy complicated.
How is electricity created? I get all the turning turbines bit, im looking for how electricity actually comes to exist. What’s the reactions/process of making electricity ?
What is electricity fundamentally? All explanations just refer to electric in its abstract form, but what is it?
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Electricity is caused, generated, created by motion. Turbines turns to generate motion. This motion produces a flow of electricity. Without motion, there is no electricity.
Electricity itself is two opposing ‘lights’ that ‘appear’ with motion and that flow and intertwine with each other in arc type shapes until they ‘disappear’ when the motion stops.
Electricity is flow of electrons,one of the fundamental particles of nature. It can be generated by harnessing charge,like chemical energy can be converted to electrical energy,mechanical energy to electrical energy,etc.
Electricity is fundamentally the flow of electrons. It’s the action of electrons moving and the more electrons move, the more powerful the charge (voltage), and the faster they move the more powerful the current (amps).
Electricity and magnetism are the same and unified called electromagnetism. Electromagnets are magnets able to turn on and off using electricity. When electricity is run through a very long coiled wire it generates a magnetic field. When you move a magnet around within a magnetic field, you generate electricity.
Electric generators and electric motors are essentially the same thing but they’re the reverse of each other and sometimes the same device can do both. Turbines have generators at the core and they collect something to spin them. This can be water from a damn or wind from a windmill. The turbines spin and rotate a magnet within the generator and the generator outputs electricity. Electric motors do the opposite by collecting electricity to rotate a magnet.
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