Eli5 – Why can’t we farm electricity from electric eels and use them for generation?

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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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Eels have static electricity… It can shock you, but it’s not that powerful in terms of wats… **IT IS HARD TO CONVERT STATIC ELECTRICITY TO FLOWING**

Animal torture aside, eels aren’t perpetuum mobile… And even if you could extract electricity from them (hard) you would have to farm them (we don’t know how) and feed them (hard and experience)

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