Why can’t we farm electricity from electric eels and use them for generation?
Or if that’s impossible, could we figure out the biochemistry and recreate it in lab settings and then generate from that?
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It isn’t predictable enough.
Pretty well every method of electricity production we have is isn’t about harvesting electricity. When we talk about different methods it’s about turning a generator.
Nuclear, coal, wind, hydro dam, solar salt, these all produce electricity the same way. By using heat or kinetic energy to perform some function which then turns the generator. The generator is where we gather the power.
Solar cell is really the only other way to produce power outside of conventional methods.
Eels would not be as predictable as a generator, not to mention the physical limitations of wiring every eel, scaring them into a shock, and the type of electricity they produce is not equivalent to what we need to power our homes and industry etc
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