“Energy-Saving Secret of Jellyfish”

Jellyfish, by living on the East Coast, we can all relate to the warm summer days spent on the beach or swimming in the ocean with hundreds of jelly fish around. They often are problematic such as the recent incident when a nuclear reactor cooler in Sweden was clogged up with thousands of jellyfish posed a great threat, and are also seen as an “ecological invader” as the New York Times article suggested. Just like with anything else thats a nuisance, scientists in South Korea created  a robot which “liquifies” these propelling blobs. The new experiment at hand is determining the exact dynamics of how these jellyfish propel themselves along with the energy expenditure. Well one may wonder why would this would be of great importance, but, the US Navy is very interested in this mainly because jellyfish use very little energy for their propulsion, therefore, water-crafts with incorporated technology can be of great essence to modern day warfare and monitoring of the seas. This concept of jellyfish is similar to the movement of octopus which uses not as much energy as a whale for example and can cover great distance.