Power Your Home with The Bloom Box
Last night 60 Minutes had a very interesting news segment about potentially powering your home with The Bloom Box (from Bloom Energy), eliminating the need to purchase electricity from your local power company.
The Bloom Box creates electricity by feeding oxygen into one side of a fuel cell while fuel is fed into the other side to provide a chemical reaction. The fuel source can be solar, natural gas, bio gas from landfill waste, etc.
The Bloom Box is currently being used by companies like Google, FedEx, Wal-Mart and eBay saving them money. The corporate sized units cost $700K to $800K, however, according to K.R. Sridhar, founder of Bloom Energy, 5 to 10 years from now home units could cost about $3,000.
Bloom Energy is to release more details this Wednesday. See the 60 Minutes Below. Very interesting stuff!
Update on February 24, 2010: See Bloom Energy Press Releases:
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