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That was for the first version, the next paragraph states: "At the suggestion of a colleague, they tried connecting the gels through a Miura-ori fold, a type o
by starshadowx2 9y ago
That was for the first version, the next paragraph states:
"At the suggestion of a colleague, they tried connecting the gels through a Miura-ori fold, a type of origami fold that allows the gels to stack on a folded sheet. The gels connect simultaneously with a large contact area, more closely resembling the geometry of the eel’s cells. This method increased the current and prevented energy waste by decreasing the time it took for the gels to connect."
- squarefoot 9y agoYet they didn't specify how much current the cell produced, which makes the 110 Volts claim completely irrelevant by itself. I would get a 10 Volts at 1 Amperes cell any day over a 110 Volts at undisclosed amount of current one. Current is important as much as voltage. A slipper and a carpet would generate thousands of Volts at very low current as well; by rubbing both feet on the carpet one would generate roughly twice the current, and a crowd doing the same would raise the current by orders of magnitude; still all that energy could not move a toy car by a single millimeter. That research is undoubtedly interesting, but it rather pertains to the "we're emulating how electric eels produce electricity" than the "we're solving the planet energy problems".