>"You know the power or force that comes from the spinning of a windmill or a water mill? Well, electricity is like that, and you can see it in nature, in the form of lightning.
>"Better yet, we figured out how to send it really far away from the mill. We can also bottle it, so we can use it in things like electric lanterns at night.
>"AC power is like lifting something on the blade of a windmill, it goes up half the time, and down the other.
>"DC is like a treadwheel-powered crane at a cathedral construction site. It keeps going up so long as the treadwheel is working."
>"All of it is based on lodestones and copper wire arranged alchemically, and spinning in the same way as a wheel."