We boil water, somehow, and direct that steam over a fan, which we call a turbine, which turns as the steam hits the veins on the fan. This turbine is attached to a generator, which is just two cylindrical electromagnets. This turning motion cases the magnets to spin past each other which causes electrons to move back and forth on the lines attached to the generator. This back and forth motion, on three lines, makes AC electricity. These electrons scurry on the wire down to a more twisted wire, next to another twisted wire called a transformer. This causes the electrons in the second twisted wire to become equivalent in power to the first twisted wire’s electrons. Then the electrons screech down the wire and out to the grid at large, where-by they undergo the transformation process over and over, until some unsuspecting bunch of electrons fire out of your wall and into your air conditioning unit.
Now just stop and think about that. It’s happening right now, hundred/thousands/millions of times a second. That’s how our world is run. Boiling water -> spinning fan -> spinning magnets -> twisted wires -> cool air. It’s crazy. There’s no way around it. It’s absolutely mad. But it is how our entire world functions these days. Can you imagine no electricity? It’s probably pretty hard for you, considering that damn near everything we have these days runs off of it or was created by a process that uses it. From the food you buy, the car you drive, the house you live in. Every single thing.
My point? Oh well, I just wanted you to think about it. Think about the ludicrous way in which we run our world. Just think. Maybe someone out there will figure out a better way to do this.
