Oh, Japan. Oh, dear, sweet Japan. You're making me swoon with your awesomeness. Ferrofluids and giant jellyfish rule my face, sure — but you've really outdone yourself this time by powering a Christmas tree with an electric eel:
Electric eels can generate 1 ampere (500 watts) of current, plenty to keep the lights on your tree blazing and the angel at the top twirling.
I can't help but think that your melding of our western culture (Christmas) with your eastern culture (weird fish obsessions) to come up with a green solution to our Christmas tree power needs is like some beautiful gift. I think it goes some distance to healing the gap created by that whole nuclear-bomb thing that happened, like, whatever ago.
A note to my landlord: Keep the deposit. I'll be in Kyoto, riding my scooter with nothin' but an electric eel in the tank, a sackful of hentai and the tears of a free man.
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