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2007-03-14 12:58:26 · 9 answers · asked by liliana d 1 in Science & Mathematics Engineering

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Three sources: static electricity, such as lightning, and from scuffing your shoes across a carpet on a dry day. Chemical electricity, as from a battery. Finally, electromagnetically created electricity, as from a generator. Moving a conductor through a magnetic field creates a voltage across the conductor; make a coil, and spin it in a magnetic field, and you can make a lot of it. Some of the generators at Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River generate over a billion watts.

2007-03-14 13:03:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

first, lets define electricity. Electricity is nothing more than electrons, tiny particles that carry a charge. The movement, or "jumping" of electrons, are based on the natures of conductors in the world around us. These conductors are basically elements or compounds that have electrons that can move freely, like the metals in the periodic table (Mg, Cu, Ti, etc.).
When our universe evolved to the way it is now, there was a set amount of electrons designated to the whole universe. So, these electrons have always been; they haven't been created or destroyed. What you see as electricity is nothing more than the passage of electrons from one source to the next.

2007-03-14 13:04:18 · answer #2 · answered by J Z 4 · 0 0

Electricity comes from the presence and flow of electrons inside an object.Check the link provide to answer the your question thoroughly.

2007-03-14 13:05:42 · answer #3 · answered by lord 2 · 0 0

In Atomic terms, it comes form the motion between unbalanced structures between Protons and Electrons in atoms (caused by either natural or un-natural processes) subjected to certain conditions (like heat, radiation, pressure, and other processes- I believe even the Nobel gases have been broken down with certain modern physics too) or simply because of structural differences like in conductive metals. Once this unbalanced requirement has been achieved, then you can generate current (the flow [amperage] of all these electrons through the unbalanced structure of certain atoms of a certain element's substance (like Gold or Copper)). That's not it though, the size of the material also affects the intensity of the flow of these electrons through a substance (resistance), and other forces like magnetism can effect the speed or force at which these particles flow through a certain size of a substance (voltage). In general terms, electricity (or power in Watts) comes from damns, windmills, and nuclear power plants that cause turbines to turn, which effects giant magnets that generate magnetic forces that push unbalanced electrons through copper wires (like water in pipes or current like amperage based on the pipe size) at a certain force (pressure like your water tap or voltage in this case).

2007-03-14 13:29:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Power.

2007-03-14 13:01:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Big wholes in the ground

2007-03-14 13:01:06 · answer #6 · answered by john c 1 · 0 0

The same place it came from the last time you asked this question ☺

Doug

2007-03-14 13:04:43 · answer #7 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0 0

It comes from the electric fairy of course!...Sorry!...LOL

2007-03-14 13:07:41 · answer #8 · answered by dr.dave 5 · 0 0

Contrary to popular belief, no one truly knows, all generators due is extract it from nature, they don't produce it.

2016-01-31 13:08:37 · answer #9 · answered by Aether 2 · 0 0

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