It’s good that this is not another news of an eel shoved into the ass of a drunk dude, and killed him, but nonetheless it’s still very much related to this very unique ‘fish’. Here’s some crazy group of people who used electric eel for ‘good cause’. Alternative power source or green power as some call it, but still a very cool move, and again this stunt is pulled by the crazy Japs.

The special Christmas tree in Japan is housed in an aquarium, as that’s the power source’s home. The holiday tree’s lights are hooked up to an aluminum electrode inside the tank of an electric eel. Every time the eel moves, it sends an 800 watt zap through the water and makes the lights sparkle for a moment. Funny that this actually works, true Science theory applied here.

The tree also has an annoying singing Santa and a mat nearby that allows visitors to help the eel generate electricity for the tree by running — or dancing — in place. The inventor of the eel-powered tree seems to have grand visions of where his gadget will go in the future. “If we could gather all the electric eels from all around the world, we would be able to light up an unimaginably large Christmas tree. I’d love to see the huge flash of light it made on the Earth, from somewhere else in the universe,” he said in an interview.

SOURCE via DVICE