How Electricity is Made by Stefan

My question is, “how is electricity made?’’  I think it is a very interesting topic because most of the people in our society only talk about how we use electricity and what it is good for. We really don’t pay enough attention to how it is made. Some people don’t even talk about what we use it for let alone how it is made. But by finding out how it is made you could start a very successful electric company.

Electricity is made by something called a windmill. What happens inside a wind mill is that there are two huge magnets rotating inside of a coil of wire. What you see of a wind mill (and what you notice most) are the spinning blades outside. The blade are attached to an axle which on the other side of the axle, the two magnets are connected. The magnets spin because of the rotating axle.  When the magnets spin inside the wire they create something called an electric field. If you make some bits of the wire jutting out into cases of rubber attached to everyone’s homes, then you have electricity.

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Another way to get electricity is solar panels. Solar panels are made up of    individual solar cells.  When the sun comes out the beams of sunlight hit the solar cell and each solar cell starts to turn the sunlight into electrons. As the electrons build up there eventually is no more room for the electrons to go so they start moving because the new ones get squished. Electrons don’t like being near each other just like two people at a party wearing the same dress. They move away from each other.  The electrons that are squished expand pushing the other electrons around.  The electrons go throughout the wires in the house giving electricity to all.

You can also get electricity with lemons. You stick barbed wire in the lemon and gently squeeze the lemon. Some juice will come out but if you attach it to a phone charger and let it sit a while and change the lemon every half-hour or so, our phone will charge. Iff you connect it to wires throughout the house, it will but very weakly power your house.

This is how electricity is made. Don’t you think it is really cool? I do and I especially like using solar panels. I hope that you liked learning how electricity is made.

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