Everybody loves a nice pretty bowed stringed instrument of Christmas lights , but they ’re not incisively thrilling . So how do you make love up the ol’ tree?Power it with trapped electrical eel . It ’s like spending the holiday at a James Bond villain ’s house !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO00tPIYSUQ
The Enoshima Aquarium in Japan is at the forefront of the eel - power tree tantrum . As an marine museum spokesman notes , each eel generates 800 Watt of succus as it floats around . So , in a nice move that ’s both eco - favorable and a display of humanity ’s ability to dominate the rest of the food chemical chain , the position ’s 2008 Christmas Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree was fire up by eel power — two slithery specimen shocking their way around an electrode - equipped army tank . It ’s a nifty theme — but the tank ’s discoverer has big plans . Much large program . Ominously bigger design :
“ If we could gather all the electric eels from all around the universe , we would be capable to light up up an unthinkably turgid christmas tree . I ’d screw to see the Brobdingnagian split second of light it made on the Earth , from somewhere else in the universe . ”
big marine museum in the world , or plans for some form of eel - based super arm ? Hard to say .
The aquarium has seriously stepped it up this year — though they did go bad to round up literally every electric eel in the world .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXuFfcRlmos
rather , they ’re even out with dance Santas , visitor - generated electricity , more eel , multiple tree , and a tower of wine-colored glasses with jellyfish inside . THIS is how you get multitude interested in science — aquarium in the rest of the Earth , please take note . [ Discovery ]
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