Bloom Box: Clean Tech Revolution

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by Dafé,

If you did not watch 60 Minutes last night, the era of your own personalized clean energy right in your own yard is here. A power sources that is inexpensive and clean, with no emissions is just what the clean technology industry has been waiting for. Bloom Energy, just made public its invention, which is a little power plant-in-a-box they want to put literally in your backyard called Bloom Box. You will generate your own electricity with the box and it’ll be wireless.

Here’s how 60 Minutes reports it: “The idea is to one day replace the big power plants and transmission line grid, the way the laptop moved in on the desktop and cell phones supplanted landlines.”

Bloom’s design feeds oxygen into one side of a cell while fuel (natural gas, bio gas from landfill waste, solar, etc) is supplied to the other side to provide the chemical reaction required for power. The cells themselves are inexpensive ceramic disks painted with a secret green “ink” on one side and a black “ink” on the other. The disks are separated by a cheap metal alloy, instead of more precious metals like platinum, and stacked into a cube of varying capabilities – a stack of 64 can power a small business like Starbucks.

Some companies already using it include Google, which has been using it for the past 18 months to power a data center, Fedex, Walmart and Ebay to name a few.

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