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Old 06-18-2009, 11:53 AM   #9 (permalink)
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The future is now, it won’t be long before diesel engines are replaced with aquariums, and engineers with eel fishermen.
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Electric Eel Used To Power Christmas Tree
by Justin on December 3, 2007
in Miscellaneous, Renewable Power

In Japan, there’s an aquarium with an electric eel in it. And the eel’s electrical power is being used to energize the lights on a Christmas tree. It’s clean energy right? 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
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