Sentences with phrase «eel generates»

A type of electric fish, this eel generates stunning voltages to zap its prey using special cells known as electrocytes.

The electric eel generates large electric currents by way of a highly specialized nervous system that has the capacity to synchronize the activity of disc - shaped, electricity - producing cells packed into a specialized electric organ.

How does an electric eel generate electricity without frying itself?

Not exact matches

Inspired by the electric eel's ability to generate hundreds of volts, Guha and his colleagues stacked hydrogels full of varying strengths of salt water.

A new battery made of fleshy hydrogel layers generates and stores power like electric eels do.

Of course, the current received by any small prey is also only a small portion of the total current generated by the eel.

The modified muscle that works as an electricity - generating organ in the eel has just on / off power.

Of the fishes able to generate an electrical discharge, electric eels are by far the champions, producing up to 600 volts!

Part of it is in the reliance on unconvincing computer - generated effects, which undermine the impact of swarms of slimy eels, turn a scene of unwanted dental surgery — a squirm - worthy idea if there ever was one — into a joke that goes on too long, and reduce a gruesome revelation near the end of the movie to a walking, talking, and unconvincing lump of mincemeat.

I suppose that's really the point - this isn't a book to read for the plot so much as for the thoughts that it generates; as John Leonard writing in the New York Times so eloquently puts it, «Cynthia Ozick braids at least three and probably four ghostly glimmers and «phantom eels» of thought into a single luminous lariat — or maybe a hangman's noose.»

The researchers who designed the robot say that the magnetic fields will generate flux throughout the water column in Europa's oceans and if the eel features an electrodynamic tether extending from it, it could harvest enough energy to power all of its systems.

Friends of the Eel River recently hired a consultant who found that just 5 acres of solar panels could generate more electricity than the Potter Valley Project now produces.