Facts you may know ! 🔥

Facts about Electricity you may know 🔥 

➡️ An electric eel can generate an electrical potential of 600 volts or more.

➡️ The world's biggest source of energy for producing electricity comes from coal. The burning of coal in furnaces heats boiler's water until it becomes steam which then spin turbines attached to generators

➡️ Electricity plays a role in a way your heart beats. Muscle cells in the heart are contracted by the electricity going through it. Electrocardiogram (ECG ) machines used in hospitals to measure the electricity going through someone's heart. When the person is healthy it usually shows a line moving across a screen with regular spike as the heart beats

➡️ You may have heard of direct current DC and alternating correct AC. The difference between the two is in the way the electrons flow. In DC, electrons move in a single direction while in AC the change direction switching between backwards and forwards. The electricity used in your home is AC and DC comes from sources that include batteries

Back in the 1880 is there was even a war of currents between Thomas Edison who helped invent DC and Nikola Tesla who had invent AC both wanted their system to be used but AC eventually winning out due to the fact that it is more economical and can be used over longer distances.