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Electric eels

Category: Energy
Responses: 7 (0 in support, 0 neutral, 7 in opposition)
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I read somewhere that Marlon Brando had a crazy idea: to acquire thousands of electric eels, from which he would harness energy to power the needs of his daily life. Sounds like a plan to me. How about you?

acaudel, Oct 07 2004

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There's the obvious problem of where to keep them and how to feed them. That energy has to come frome somewhere...

MikeMol, Oct 07 2004

If I'm not mistaken the eels mostly produce the current when they are either trying to stun their meal or protect themselves. It's not a constant thing, not like what you would need to power a household.

Hyenuf, Oct 07 2004

It would be easier and more praciticle to use oxen to turn a wheel.

DrLZRDMN, Dec 06 2004

Yes, but they'd smush the megawatt producing eels under foot!

Albert Kaufman, Dec 09 2004

The problem of maintaining a steady current from the eels revolves around keeping them frightened enough to create a shocking voltage. If there is a discipline of eel psychology, the morality of using psychological techniques to create what would probably end up in eel psychosis is questionable. Somewhat similar to the current technique of the Bush administration to maintain a steady state of public panic to permit the infinite extension of presidential powers. In humans, severe fright frequently results in unontrolled defecation so the ultimate problem might be the proper disposal of huge quantities of eel shit.

sand, Jul 01 2006

I heard that Batman has one of those...

Marlon Brando is just a Batman wannabe!

johnnyblista_, Jan 13 2007