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How does a breezy day at a wind turbine end up as electricity in your home?

On a windy day, the giant white turbines on a hillside spin slowly, almost lazily. Yet somewhere in a town nearby, that same wind is lighting lamps and charging phones. Nothing seems to travel from the blades to the houses except a thin cable. So how does a puff of moving air turn into electricity in your home?

Two wind turbines standing in green coastal fields beside the sea.
Photo: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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