Flashy fish: electric eel powers Tennessee aquarium’s Christmas tree
Visitors to the Tennessee aquarium may be shocked to learn that the Christmas tree is being powered by an unusual renewable energy source – an electric eel.
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Meet Miguel Wattson, an electric eel from Tennessee with its own Twitter account. Whenever he discharges a large enough jolt, a tweet will be automatically send out to his account EelectricMiguel. Apart from sending tweets, he also helps power up Christmas trees at the aquarium.
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Have we figured out how they generate electricity yet?
Cause I want to skip solar and go to eel powered electricity.
Direct link to the twitter! [https://twitter.com/EelectricMiguel](https://twitter.com/EelectricMiguel)
If only his name was Migueel.
Apparently for their Spooktober event he is connected to electrical Jack-o-lanterns that light up when he discharges. That’s what their email said anyway. I haven’t been in a few weeks.
It’s a really nice aquarium. I’ve been several times over the years. I never knew about Miguel.
Brb gonna go follow an eel on twitter
Update: I followed an eel on Twitter
What even is my life anymore
The a switch senses the eel juice and turns on the lights. We aren’t to the point of eel slaves being a viable power and/or nutrition source.
Its a little disappointing that they don’t power the light because its like they’re having a little eel idea.
What is it with Tennessee and electric eels?
There is a professor at Vanderbilt University (in Nashville not Chattanooga, so not the same eels) who has got several single author papers in *Science*- something which you almost never see- by measuring exactly how and when they shock their prey.