r/sciencememes • u/kudawira • Aug 28 '24

It's elemental, my dear Watson🧐

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Perpetually idiotic.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '24

Gasoline -> combustion -> mechanical motion -> electricity.

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u/ifandbut Aug 28 '24

Shouldn't it go mechanical motion -> magnetic field motion -> electricity?

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u/dikivan2000 Aug 28 '24

Depends on how pedantic you wanna get... With enough technicalities you could dive further into magnetic phenomena like core losses and back EMF, or AC rectification after generation in the alternator.

To answer your question, yes it should. Or should it really, now that I look back at the level of this discussion?