• Question: Will electric eals ever mack electric

    Asked by harry4 to Cathy, Jaz, Mark, Roma, Rory on 16 Jun 2014.
    • Photo: Cathy Fraser

      Cathy Fraser answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      I’d never thought of this before to be honest, but a quick googling tells me that electric eels can produce up to 600V of electricity – which is quite a lot (considering our mains are 240V!). That’s delivered in short bursts – there’s a link here to an eel lighting up a Christmas tree for a short period of time!
      http://www.stufftoblowyourmind.com/blog/electric-eels-power-car/

      Thinking outside the box – that’s what engineers do – so this is a great question about looking at things in different ways and coming up with ideas and potential solutions to problems

    • Photo: Roma Agrawal

      Roma Agrawal answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Sounds like Cathy has this one covered! GREAT idea, now the next step is to test the idea and see if you can get someone to mass produce it 🙂

    • Photo: Mark Greaves

      Mark Greaves answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Nice answer from Cathy!

      Google is such a great invention!

    • Photo: Rory Hadden

      Rory Hadden answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Excellent. I hadn’t though thought of this. I expect there might be a problem building a big enough fish tank for all those eels thought! 🙂

    • Photo: Jaz Rabadia

      Jaz Rabadia answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Great question Harry, and Cathy maybe this is the answer to the energy supply gap?

      Jaz

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