[Potironette]

Lol xD. That's a long post.
Thanks for the detailed answer though!

I guess I should probably learn more about fields and currents before understanding how magnets generate electricity :/. Whenever I look for it, there's a lot about how generators are made up of different parts, and depending on the parts currents flow either back and forth or forwards, but I don't really understand exactly how the currents are flowing in the first place--as in why the magnets are causing that sort of current flow, and then there's how the weird circle part (I forgot the name) can make the electrons not flow back and forth but rather just flow forward.

Earth has a positive charge :o? Or it just has a more positive charge than the cloud..?

Soo... if a cloud is really high up, the shortest path might be between clouds or within the same cloud, and if it's lower on the ground electrons move from the bottom of the cloud to the ground?

If I had copper and zinc would it be extremely bad idea to connect them together and stick the ends into a power outlet xD?

Ohh, woops, I'd forgotten that chemical reactions were important in batteries.
Actually, because I forgot about it, a lot of it flew over my head. Though I do recall something about how one end needs to lose electrons and starts falling apart and the other end gains electrons and gets a coating.

What does "knocks an electron off" mean? It's not that the electron literally flies out of the metal surface is it..?