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They are powered by electricity of course, but the generate microwaves (an electromagnetic wave, like light - but of a higher frequency). We are surrounded by microwaves from the sun, satalites, and radiation from electrical dewvices, but microwaves concentrate the energy - heat happens where "beams" cross and excite the molecules of what they are passing through (i.e. heat).

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