Natural gas and oxygen are utilized by a fuel cell, Bloom Box, to make electricity. Bloom Energy’s Bloom Box was featured on “60 Minutes” Sunday, a couple of days ahead of the company’s formal launch on Sept. 1. The power by Bloom Box is clean, dependable and affordable as it is an “energy server.” This was said by Bloom Energy in advertising. It’s a stand-alone unit that some major corporations are already using it to supplement their energy needs. Bloom Energy assumes that Bloom Box can take over. There can be no need for transmission lines of the energy grid and even power plants. There will be hardly any sales of Bloom Box unless it can get the price dropped quite a bit. Article resource – Bloom Box fuel cell uses secret formula to produce clean energy by Personal Money ! Store.
9 months of utilizing Bloom Box saves eBay $ 100,000
Bloom Box took forever to create. About 10 years were used. In its “60 Minutes” feature on Bloom Energy, CBS News reports that company founder K.R. Stridhar has raised about $ 400 million for the technology. There are secret formulas on ceramic discs that are within the Bloom Box. One side holds natural gas. The other side really has oxygen. The power comes when the two elements react and make an electro-chemical response. There should be more discs stacked in it. With additional discs, power is added. A Bloom Box with 64 disks will power a Starbucks. It costs $ 800,000, although twenty companies in California have found a way to cut the price in half with the 30 percent federal tax break and 20 percent state subsidy. Bloom Boxes running on carbon-neutral bio-gas were sold to eBay’s CEO, John Donahoe. They were installed 9 months ago and, as outlined by CBS News, have saved eBay over $ 100,000 in electricity already.
Is the electrical grid something of the past?
Within the past, personal computers replaced mainframes. Stridhar explained to Newsweek that Bloom box may do this very same thing in replacing power plants and transmission lines on the electrical grid. Huge data centers are made by small servers put in groups together. Google, along with other Bloom Energy customers, do this. Bloom Boxes can be clustered the same way to create energy farms. Stridhar said that Bloom Box may only be sold right now because of subsidies. But economies of scale could bring the price down to about a $ 3,000 investment for a household installation. The cost goes down 10 to 15 percent each and every time volume doubles.
Fuel cell market info
The Bloom Box seems as demand for fuel cells is expected to accelerate. Fuel cell costs goes down with advances in technology, says altenergymag.com that published a global fuel cell market report by GBI Research. 2013 can be when fuel cells could become commercialized. This would be as a result of price drops. Freedonia Group did a report in 2008 showing that through 2012, fuel cell demand will go up six fold to $ 975 million. Using fuel cells for electric power generation was expected to grow 41 percent a year in that time frame.
Additional reading
CBS News
cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/18/60minutes/main6221135_page2.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody
Newsweek
newsweek.com/2010/04/22/this-is-brand-new.html
Altenenergymag
altenergymag.com/emagazine.php?art_id=1468
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