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Electrical energy is produced by humans in power generation plants. These can be powered by burning coal or other fossil fuels or they can be powered by water, as for example is done at the Hoover Dam. There are also nuclear power plants. The details vary in each case, but somehow a turbine is being turned by the power source and alternating magnetic fields are created in the presence of conductors where electric current is generated. This all goes into the electrical grid.

Mother nature also generates electricity, most spectacularly in the form of lightning.

There are a variety of processes that produce electricity including the process that creates electric sparks when you walk across a carpet. There are also chemical processes that occur in a battery.

In all of these examples, some form of energy is converted to electrical energy though the mechanism is different in the various examples.

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When coal, oil, or natural gas burn this is a chemical reaction with oxygen, the heat released is used to raise steam and power a steam turbine/generator set to produce electricity.

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That's one description of the cells in a battery.

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