RUTHWELL, a parish, in the county of Dumfries containing the village of Clarencefield, 7Â½ miles (W. by N.) from Annan.
This is the basis of generation in rotating machines. You can produce a current in a conductor by connecting opposite ends to the + and-poles of a battery, but don't try this with your car battery or you will burn out the conductor and produce a lot of heat. It is safer to use a small dry battery.
So the mechanical energy of the moving wire is converted into the electric energy of the current that flows in the wire. The electricity produced by the generator then flows through huge transmission wires that link the power plants to our homes, school and businesses.