My space heater pulls electrons from the “hot” lead in the wall socket, into a ceramic resistor that heats up and leaks the electrons back into the wall socket on the “cold” lead.
That cold lead is connected in my garage, through the fuse box, to a copper spike driven into the ground. So, that’s where the electrons “go”. But where do they come from?
Here in the Northwest, we have hydro-electric power and steam driven turbines, IF the nuclear facilities are still online. So my power comes from a generator at either source. The generator is a large magnet that rotates at 60 times a second inside a large wound bundle of copper wires. And the magnet pulls the electrons in the copper wire and pushes (voltage) them down the wire to me. But the copper wires aren’t grounded, so….
Where do the electrons come from?
