Electricity Facts
Electricity plays almost the most important role in our everyday life, so we collected a wide range of information’s to brag about between your friends. Check them out!
- Electricity can be made from wind, water, the sun and even animal poop.
- Lightning is an example of electrical energy found in nature.
- Electrical energy is the most widely used form of energy.
In terms of nominal capacity, the largest solar electric power plant is the Harper Lake Site in the Mojave Desert, California.
- Electricity travels at the speed of light – more than 186,000 miles per second.
- It takes 6 billion, billion electrons to light a 100-watt light bulb for just 1 second.
- A generator is a device that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
- In order for electric energy to be utilized, it must act through a conductor.
- Static electricity occurs when the electrons from one object jump to another object.
- The movement of electric charge is known as an electric current, and intensity of which is usually measured in amperes.
- The two types of electrical charge in electrical energy are positive and negative.
- 16% of Canada’s electricity is produced by nuclear fission.
- A battery produces electricity using two different metals in a chemical solution.
- A 600 megawatt natural gas plant can power 220,000 homes.
- The first power plant owned by Thomas Edison opened in New York City in 1882.
- Electric energy is easily transportable via integrated electric grids.
- Electricity always tries to find the easiest path to the ground.
- Tesla’s inventions used electricity to bring indoor lighting to our homes and to power industrial machines.
- Water is a good conductor of electricity and your body is made up of 60% water.
- Ben Franklin didn’t discover electricity but he did prove that lightning is a form of electrical energy.
- The Brooklyn Bridge was the first bridge to be lit using electricity.
- Electricity travels in closed loops, or circuits. It must have a complete path before the electrons can move.
