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Well that’s not how electricity works. It’s how you can generate it, sure, but electricity exists everywhere.
Silicon exists everywhere. Making it into computer chips is something else.
Sure, but the question in the meme isn’t “how do you make electricity”…it’s “how does that ‘electricity’ work?”
You can make electricity with your hands rubbing on cloth, or with any number of other mechanisms that aren’t windings.
They aren't looking for an academic discussion. They want to see practical uses. I don't know why you're trying so hard to read it in a bizarre way.
They’re greek or Roman, they absolutely are looking for an academic discussion, wtf are you talking about. And I’m not reading into it in a bizarre way, it’s literally what’s in the meme.
Not like Romans were famous engineers that built things. JFC. Not like people in the past tried to improve things. Nope. You are reading it bizarrely. I'm gonna leave it at that.
You’re the one not reading it as written, sorry bud.
Hence the material science bit. Creating anything to make the electricity useful is the hard part.
Hydro power has been around for a long time but was used for direct mechanical work.
Electricity is an abstract layer above that and requires at least something like a light bulb to make any practical sense.
But the meme wasn’t asking how to make electricity! Like if they said that, sure, but they just asked how it worked.