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Generators, despite the name, do not create energy - they merely transfer it from one form to another. For example, a generator might burn gasoline to produce electricity. They do not power themselves because they are devices that run on a different type of energy than they produce - that's what makes them "generators" in the first place, after all.

Think of it like a car. A car burns gasoline to create movement. It doesn't matter how fast the car might be moving when it runs out of gas - it'll sputter to a stop, because it's designed to run on gasoline, not on momentum.

It is much the same with a generator. It's designed to run on its fuel, not on its output. That's the whole point: to convert one type of energy to a different type.

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