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What is electricity generation?

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Question added by Samar Saleh , Community Manager , Bayt.com
Date Posted: 2013/06/18
Aftab Ahmed
by Aftab Ahmed , Senior Engineer- Technical Service and Coordination Department , Pakistan Oilfields Ltd (POL)

Any Situation which Causes Electrons to flow in a Close Circuit or make them ready to flow in an Open Circuit is called Electricity Generation.

 

History books also discuss special Wooden or Mud Vessels filled with special Chemicals & metal wires to give shock Punishment to Slaves. Batteries are latest form of Chemical Generation of Electricity.

Also Static Charge in Thundering Clouds develops Human Interest in Electricity Generation.

Rotating Magnetic Field also induces enough EMF in nearby Coils, Basic principal of Electrical Generators.

 

Electricity generation is the process of generating electrical power from other sources of primary energy.

The fundamental principles of electricity generation were discovered during the1820s and early1830s by the British scientist Michael Faraday. His basic method is still used today: electricity is generated by the movement of a loop of wire, or disc of copper between the poles of a magnet.

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