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The efficiency(of the individual cells) is relatively low at 15.4%, plus an individual electric eel can't really produce that much power over a sustained period. The efficiency is notable though because it is more efficient than current glucose fuel cells, although the power densities are lower.

There has been some work showing that artificial cells could be used to generate more power: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2767210/

Now the problem with using cells like this to generate power is how you feed the cells. This does make sense for generating power inside the human body from blood glucose to power implants, but you do run into problems with biocompatibility.

>>7167456
Photosynthesis has a really low efficiency