Monday, July 21, 2008

Bloom Energy prepares its mysterious device

http://green.yahoo.com/blog/ecogeek/785/bloom-energy-prepares-its-mysterious-device.html

A recent story in The New York Times discusses Bloom at length, and says that they're looking at commercialization within one or two years. That's good for investors, who've already dumped $250 million into Bloom. But we still have to wonder what Bloom is doing that requires 200 employees and all that cash.Bloom Energy wants your house to be a power plant. They want the natural gas line to go straight into their ultra-efficient fuel cell, and then that fuel cell will provide exactly the amount of power you need. loom's fuel cells are nearly twice as efficient as natural gas peaking plants, and have 40% of the emissions, the little box would do more than save the environment; it would save you a lot of money.

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