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 * **__What is Electricity?__**
 * **__What is Electricity?__**

Electricity is a form of energy. Electricity is generated when millions of electrons move around and create force fields that create energy. Electric power companies make the electricity and transport it to your home. || Before electricity became available over 100 years ago, houses were lit with kerosene lamps, food was cooled in iceboxes, and rooms were warmed by wood-burning or coal-burning stoves. Many scientists and inventors have tried to work out the principles of electricity since the 1600s. Some notable accomplishments were made by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Tesla. Benjamin Franklin demonstrated that lightning is electricity. Thomas Edison invented the first long-lasting incandescent light bulb.

Despite its great importance in our daily lives, few of us probably stop to think what life would be like without electricity. Like air and water, we tend to take electricity for granted. But we use electricity to do many jobs for us every day — from lighting, heating, and cooling our homes to powering our televisions and computers.

**fossil fuels** The age of the organisms and their resulting fossil fuels is typically millions of years, and sometimes exceeds 650 million years. The fossil fuels include coal, petroleum, and natural gas, and contain high percentages of [|carbon].A **fossil-fuel power station** is a [|power station] that burns [|fossil fuels] such as [|coal], [|natural gas] or [|petroleum] (oil) to produce [|electricity]. Fossil-fuel power station are designed on a large scale for continuous operation. In many countries, such plants provide most of the electrical energy used. Oil and natural gas are also fossil fuels.They are formed from the bodies of countless tiny plants and animals which lived in warm seas.



This is a diagram of how much fossil fuels we are burning.