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Over the millennia, the phenomenon known as electricity has meant different things to different people. In ancient societies, electricity—or more specifically lightning—was inspiration for some of the ...

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As part of the goal of tackling climate change, more and more people are using electric vehicles, which produce just a fraction of the carbon dioxide emissions as their gasoline-powered counterparts.

Electricity means the presence or motion of electrical charge. When the charge is moving from its source (origin) to sink (destination), it's called electrical current. Electrical charge that simply ...