{"id":22809,"date":"2019-07-31T09:41:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T13:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=22809"},"modified":"2019-07-31T09:42:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T13:42:01","slug":"chapter-15-electric-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/chapter-15-electric-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 15. Electric Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you want to look at the questions now, you can\u00a0click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you\never wondered how electricity flows into your house and powers all your\ndevices? Let\u2019s discuss how electricity gets to your room! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Powering the World: <\/strong>Electricity is first generated in a place called a power plant. This picture shows a nuclear power plant. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Electricity is first generated by power stations. Power\nstations are massive electrical plants that, well, produce electricity! Power\nplants use different sources of energy, like coal, gas, wind, water, and\nnuclear power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once\nelectricity is produced, it can be sent along transmission wires. Transmission\nwires transmit, or carry, electricity over large distances. These wires lose\nsome of the electric power. So, a \u201cstep up\u201d transformer increases the electric\npower going into transmission lines. This transformer makes sure enough\nelectricity is sent to the end of the transmission wire. These wires crisscross\nthe country. So, transmission wires create transmission networks. Networks of\nwires help make sure people do not lose power as easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Flow of Electricity: <\/em><\/strong>A diagram showing the step-by-step process that send electricity from a power station all the w<\/em>ay to your home. Adapted from smartgrid.gov. Note: \u201cStep up\u201d transformers are often within the power plant.\u00a0 <\/em> \u00a0 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

At the end of the transmission wire, a \u201cstep down\u201d transformer decrease\nthe strength of the electric current. This second transformer makes the\nelectricity safer. Before electricity can enter any buildings, it must pass\nthrough a \u201cstep down\u201d transformer. These substation transformers connect to\ndistribution power lines. The distribution power lines let electricity flow to\nyour neighborhood and your house. The electricity comes into a fuse box that\nmakes sure the amount of power each area of your house uses is a safe amount.\nThe wires from your fuse box go to all the outlets in your house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\nPower\nplants are huge. Bigger than your school building. Your outlet in your bedroom\nis tiny. It takes hours to charge a little cell phone! The system between the\npower plant and your outlet moves the electricity to everyone AND makes sure\nthat a safe amount of electricity is delivered to the right place. These\nsystems have lots of pieces to make sure it is safe and works well.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In summary,\nyour TV and microwave work because they use electricity. This electricity is\ncreated by a power plant and then increased so it can be sent along\ntransmission lines. When it gets close to your house, a substation, makes the\namount of electricity safe. Then, it travels through distribution wires to your\nhouse. Your house has a fuse box which makes sure all the wires in your house\nare acting safely. Including the small outlet connected to your TV’s plug. The\nTV uses electricity to receive information sent by the television network. It\nuses more electricity to transform this information into the sounds and\npictures of your favorite programs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you want to look at the questions now, you can\u00a0click here. Have you ever wondered how electricity flows into your house and powers all your devices? Let\u2019s discuss how electricity gets to your room! Electricity is first generated by power stations. Power stations are massive electrical plants that, well, produce electricity! Power plants use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22810,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22809\/revisions\/22810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}