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What do we use to generate electricity?
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Mar 10, 2018
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What do we use to generate electricity?
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We use a conductor and magnetic field to generate electricity.
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Use wind turbines. In a windy seashore we set up some wind turbines. But when the place is not windy we got no electricity.
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How does the electricity travel?
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