Power And The Glory
17 06 2006
I happened to see a segment on Behind the News about power generation in the context of the current national debate about the future Australian use of nuclear power. What I didn’t realise is that almost all power is made my spinning around magnets. We use water, wind, coal and steam and nuclear power and steam all to just spin the magnets around.
Not that there is anything wrong with that it was just news to me. I didn’t realise they were all so similar in what they did. The only one that was different in this story was solar which uses crystals to turn sunlight into electricity.
Anyhow the full text of the story is here if you are interested.
