• Question: where do we get the electricity from?

    Asked by to Naomi on 19 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Naomi Osborne answered on 19 Jun 2014:

      We get electricity from many different sources including water, coal, nuclear power and wind turbines.

      The way we make electricity from these things is the same – using magnets. The sources we use are used to spin turbines, which in turn spins magnets inside a wire and it’s this motion that generates a current. The current flows through the wire and is pushed out of high-voltage transformers.

      We also generate electricity from solar panels…but I’m not sure how this works exactly!

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