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What makes electricity by letting falling water turn turbines and generators?
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∙ 6y ago
The moving or falling water travels through a turbine, causing the turbine blades to spin.
This in turn, is used to drive a generator (in simple terms, this is a magnet that spins inside a coil of copper wire).
The rotating magnetic field produced by the spinning magnet induces an electrical current in the copper wire hence generating electricity.
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∙ 14y ago
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