Bloom Energy CEO, K.R. Sridhar<\/p>\n
Last night 60 Minutes aired a story that was very exciting in its promise for clean energy.\u00a0 It was\u00a0 a story about the Bloom Box, an amazing energy source produced by Bloom Energy. The Bloom Box sounds like one of those magic perpetual motion machines you hear about, that are going to be a great provider of endless energy in the future — except this is real.\u00a0 It’s a stand-alone plug-in power plant that is powerful enough to power businesses and homes, not just a single light bulb.<\/p>\n
It’s possible that these fuel cell boxes could change energy usage all around the world.\u00a0\u00a0 Theoretically they would emit no CO2 unless they are powered in part by natural gas, which for some reason they need in some installations.\u00a0 (They greatly increase the energy output from the amount of natural gas used.) \u00a0 If\u00a0 these boxes work as advertised, they could be the power plant of the future, — personal power plants that everyone has in their neighborhood, if not their homes.\u00a0\u00a0 The might replace the electrical grid and completely change the way energy is disseminated to regular people.\u00a0 Imagine generating all the electricity you need from a box in your backyard.<\/p>\n
Here is one of the videos from 60 Minutes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Watch CBS News Videos Online<\/p>\n
The Bloom Box is a set of fuel cells that run on oxygen. It was first developed for NASA, for a project to provide power and breathable air on Mars. When the Mars missions were scrapped, at least for now, the developer and CEO, K.R. Sridhar is taking the idea to the public and American business.<\/p>\n
The Bloom Box is already being used by Google, eBay, and other large companies in California as a test power source.\u00a0 It works, according to them.\u00a0\u00a0 (More videos\u00a0 from 60 Minutes are here.) Since that story ran, the Wall Street Journal, always skeptical, has weighed in, along with other skeptics.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Besides the excitement of the technology, this could be just the thing that we need to replace fossil fuels, when used in conjunction with solar, geotheormal and wind power.\u00a0 This could put renewable energy over the top into providing baseload power sooner, instead of later.\u00a0 Here is why this is so important.\u00a0 The AAAS\u00a0 recently reported:<\/p>\n
Governments ‘misjudging’ scale of CO2 emissions
\n 21-Feb-2010 — Policymakers are markedly underestimating the changes needed to mitigate CO2 emission required to prevent dangerous climate change because they work in “silos.” Dr. Sebastian Carney, from the University of Manchester, discovered that the lack of communication between government departments, NGOs and other authorities has resulted in significant differences over who is responsible for what. He will describe his work at the 2010 AAAS Annual Meeting.<\/p>\n
Read more here.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow, Bloom Energy makes its big public announcement.<\/p>\n
[on Wednesday] . . . the company is scheduled to host \u201ca special event\u201d in Silicon Valley featuring presentations by luminaries including John Doerr, partner in the venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the key financial backer of [...]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bloom Energy CEO, K.R. Sridhar Last night 60 Minutes aired a story that was very exciting in its promise for clean energy.\u00a0 It was\u00a0 a story about the Bloom Box, an amazing energy source produced by Bloom Energy. The Bloom … Continue reading