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Old 07-16-2017, 08:17 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ECO-AKJ View Post
Yes I don't have the brain power to understand this completely, but I found it fascinating
Electricity = magnetism (and vice versa).
Therefore an electric motor is also a generator, depending on if you are supplying electricity (then it's a motor), or kinetic energy (then it's a generator).

Electricity makes a magnetic field, and magnetic fields can make electricity.

You cannot make more of one, without supplying more of the other.

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