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 Christmas lights - powered by an Electric eel!

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PostSubject: Christmas lights - powered by an Electric eel!   Christmas lights - powered by an Electric eel! Icon_minitime12/3/2010, 1:10 pm

Christmas lights - powered by an Electric eel! Lihght10


For five years in a row, a Japanese aquarium has put up a shocking display for Christmas. The Enoshima Aquarium in Kamakura, just south of Tokyo, has been using an Electric eel (Electrophorus electricus) to light up a Christmas tree during the holiday season.

Two aluminum panels in the tank serve as electrodes, causing a two-metre tall Christmas tree to light up in intermittent flashes whenever the eel moves.




CLICK HERE TO WATCH The Eel light up a x-mas tree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO00tPIYSUQ&feature=player_embedded


This year, the eel is joined by a robotic Santa Claus, who is activated to sing and dance whenever visitors stomp on an electric floor pad (the pad also helps light up the tree).

According to Kazuhiko Minawa, a member of the aquarium’s public relations team that designed and built the display: "We first decided to get an electric eel to light up a Christmas tree and its top ornament using its electricity. As electric eels use their muscles when generating a charge, we also thought to get humans to use their muscles to light up parts of the tree".

The display was put up by the aquarium to encourage ecological sensitivity among its visitors.



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PostSubject: Re: Christmas lights - powered by an Electric eel!   Christmas lights - powered by an Electric eel! Icon_minitime12/3/2010, 2:09 pm

I need a tank of those to save on my electic bill! lol!
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lol good idea Vixen...good search K!
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Thats cool!!
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COOL!!!
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amazing.
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awesome
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Thats very cool!!!!
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I would pay money to check it out.
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Christmas lights - powered by an Electric eel! 858205
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PostSubject: Re: Christmas lights - powered by an Electric eel!   Christmas lights - powered by an Electric eel! Icon_minitime12/4/2010, 11:16 pm

Depending on how many light bulbs... that's ALOT of electricity......

Making fish do work ey? nice nice
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just think your fish paying the electric bill. Hey I can dream can't I! lol!
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that is quite awesome
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cool.
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FishVixen wrote:
just think your fish paying the electric bill. Hey I can dream can't I! lol!

That would be NICEEEe Christmas lights - powered by an Electric eel! 690297 lol!
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Now if I could get them to clean the house. lol! I'd be rich selling those fry.
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that is cool
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