In countries like Germany, balcony-mounted solar panels are all the rage. But from breaker-masking to voltage mismatches, America’s grid isn’t ready for it—yet.
It’s not electrons “reaching” a point that does the work, it’s the fact that they move. A generator or a battery just applies the force that makes them move (voltage).
You can in fact picture it like water, just in a circular, perfectly level channel. When you paddle at one point in the channel the water starts to move and can do work at another point. It doesn’t really matter where exactly you are paddling.
It’s not electrons “reaching” a point that does the work, it’s the fact that they move. A generator or a battery just applies the force that makes them move (voltage).
You can in fact picture it like water, just in a circular, perfectly level channel. When you paddle at one point in the channel the water starts to move and can do work at another point. It doesn’t really matter where exactly you are paddling.