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I was talking about this with the my kids (10, 7) the other day. Blew their minds a little that pretty much every power source comes back to the same central thing: moving magnets.

Then I pointed out that our electric car does it in both directions too.



Well, it's just another of our favorite converters - kinetic <-> electric energy.

electric <-> kinetic - spinning magnets

kinetic <-> pressure - turbine / pump

pressure <- heat - boiler

heat <- chemical potential - furnace




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