inginuity at its best.

[Ajmukon]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22242648//wid/11915829?GT1=10736

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well, i wouldn't have thought of that...
but it is 100% clean and effiecient

[deddard]

A novel approach, but wouldn't it start depositing aluminium oxide into the water? Not sure if the eel would appreciate that (although it's probably goingt o be eaten, so it gets the last laugh on the person who ingests the aluminium!)

[Ajmukon]

A novel approach, but wouldn't it start depositing aluminium oxide into the water? Not sure if the eel would appreciate that (although it's probably goingt o be eaten, so it gets the last laugh on the person who ingests the aluminium!)
i think it is just static electricity in the water that is being "picked" up by the metal plate.


the water is not an acid....
and doesn't the formation of aluminum oxide need acid?

[Fruss Tray Ted]

but wouldn't it start depositing aluminium oxide into the water
If that were the case my canoe would have rotted away (I would have drowned :eek: ) l-o-n-g ago. But pennies (copper) in a tank are deadly to infusoria (microorganisms) and eventually the fish as well.

i think it is just static electricity in the water that is being "picked" up by the metal plate. Peenies in a tank, esp when salt is included, leeches into the water and is deadly to infusoria and eventually to the fish as well.

I DARE YOU to stick your hand in that tank! :p The voltages put out by those eels is painfully STUNNING! :eek: However the current (amperage) is relatively small (low) so my assumption is the inventor is using some low power illumination such as LED's or similar. Still would be very cool to see or do. :cool:

[mjc]

You know, this has nothing to do with the actual topic, the commercials on there are 'smoother' video than the actual stories...

The amount of aluminum that could possibly be absorbed by the eel in the amount of time it will be on 'display' is probably a lot less than would be absorbed if it were cooked in an aluminum pan...and like aluminum is really high on the list of toxic metals, anyway. (If it were, every soft drink drinker and beer drinker would have been dead from aluminum poisoning years ago.)

[Fruss Tray Ted]

every soft drink drinker and beer drinker would have been dead from aluminum poisoning years ago.

Since aluminum took over from tin cans they use a coating on the metal to keep the toxicity of the metals from being ingested. The occurrence of health problems from even dented cans has all but been eliminated with this plating process.

Any acidic vegetable is still to be avoided esp when using aluminum cookware and even more so if the ware's coatings are worn down. I had a pressure cooker that pitted excessively and needed to be thrown out after using it as a crock pot and cooking tomatoes as part of a spaghetti dish not long ago. The pits were about the size of BB's (.177")!! :eek:

[mjc]

Since aluminum took over from tin cans they use a coating on the metal to keep the toxicity of the metals from being ingested. The occurrence of health problems from even dented cans has all but been eliminated with this plating process.


Yeah, but before they started coating them, the human race would have been wiped out if aluminum were all that toxic...it isn't... so, a week or two (or even four) of an eel being exposed to aluminum plates isn't going to significantly affect the amount of aluminum ingested by the 'end user'.

Over all, it is a novel idea, but one that isn't all that 'earth shattering'.

I wonder if this qualifies as 'playing with your food'?