Charging your ebike battery with eel !

[Doctorbass]

Ah.. I was watching daily Planet show and they shown a christmas tree with the light powered by an EEL !!!

So i would be curious to one day see an ebike charged by an aquarium filled with EEL !!!

According to Wiki, :The electric eel generates its characteristic electrical pulse in a manner similar to a battery, in which stacked plates produce an electrical charge. In the electric eel, some 5,000 to 6,000 stacked electroplaques are capable of producing a shock at up to 500 volts and 1 ampere of current (500 watts).


1Amp !!! 500V !!! .. pulsated for sure.. but regulate that and you get DC !!

A step down converter and caps and you have an EEL powered charger!! :wink:

ANOTHER INTERESTING ARTICLE ABOUT ELL AND BATTERY DEVELOPPMENT:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/emergingtech/mimicking-electric-eel-cells-to-produce-energy/1054

 

[Doctorbass]

oopss :lol:
Well.. I found this:

An electric eel shock lasts about 3ms, and it can shock apparently 150 times per hour without getting tired (http://www.enotes.com/science-fa...) - the shock is at a voltage of about 500 V, with a current of 1 A (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ele...). Assuming a well-fed and properly-agitated eel can shock 150 times per hour 24/7, that means each eel is putting out 225 Joules per hour, or on average 62.5 mW.


62.5mW... ... just less than a single 10 inch square solar cell)

It would take month to charge an ebike like ours!..
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Doc

 

[neptronix]

Nothing beats a giant burning ball of gas for free energy!!

 

[neptronix]

another failed alternative energy solution!!

 

[heathyoung]

Well, you would assume that they are DC (since it is a battery) - but are they all the same polarity?
What happens if you get two incorrectly polarised eels in the one small tank?
Do they fail the way LiPo batteries do when shorted?
Do they puff up when over-discharged?
If you got enough of them in the one tank and all of the same polarity, you would get DC anyway, but they would all have to be facing the same way? Align them in pipes? Put them in series parallel?

:lol:

 

[hydro-one]

And where would the food energy come from for the eel. ??? fossil fuels ?

here is a wicked vid, make sure and read the comments for a translation lmao

http://videosift.com/video/What-Happens-When-an-Alligator-Bites-an-Electric-Eel?loadcomm=1


mike

 

[neptronix]

^--- wow, Double K.O

 

[texaspyro]

Perhaps we could develop giant hybrid-electric eels... I think that I'll apply for a government stimulus grant.

I do know they are rather tasty with teriyaki sauce. But none of the British jellied eel crap.

 

[maydaverave]

Perhaps we could develop giant hybrid-electric eels... I think that I'll apply for a government stimulus grant.

I do know they are rather tasty with teriyaki sauce. But none of the British jellied eel crap.

What if we splice electric eel and tree genes together? Solar panels from a seed?