The Mainichi Daily News of Japan reports:
An aquarium filled with exotic fish here is using an electric eel to power lights on a Christmas tree.
Each time the electric eel at the Aqua Toto Gifu aquarium touches a
copper wire in its tank, it sends power that lights up globes decking a
Christmas tree.
Via Aardvark
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Poor eel.
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A new ecological solution to global warming?
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So how long does the tree stay lit? just for a few seconds when the eel swims past the copper wires? that sucks.
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The Vancouver Aquarium had a Christmas tree and light display powered by "eelectricty" since the 1970's.
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ok...has anyone asked the most obvious question? why not just plug the damn thing in and let the eel go? why does everything have to be complicated???
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