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Christmas Eel Makes Tree Lights Electric
Submitted by Jeremy Hsu
posted: 03 December 2010 01:34 pm ET
Christmas traditions don't get much stranger than having an electric eel power the tree lights, but one Japanese aquarium has made such a display into a recurring eco-friendly theme for the past five years.
Aluminum panels in the eel tank channel the electricity generated by the eel's movement to power the bright flashes on a Christmas tree at an aquarium in Kamakura, Japan. "It's beginning to eel a lot like Christmas," the Reuters headline quipped....
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO00tPIYSUQ[/ame]
Christmas Eel Makes Tree Lights Electric
Submitted by Jeremy Hsu
posted: 03 December 2010 01:34 pm ET
Christmas traditions don't get much stranger than having an electric eel power the tree lights, but one Japanese aquarium has made such a display into a recurring eco-friendly theme for the past five years.
Aluminum panels in the eel tank channel the electricity generated by the eel's movement to power the bright flashes on a Christmas tree at an aquarium in Kamakura, Japan. "It's beginning to eel a lot like Christmas," the Reuters headline quipped....
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO00tPIYSUQ[/ame]