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OK, I'll admit I am a sucker for potentially game-changing technology. This certainly fits that description if it can live up to the claims ...

dvice wrote:Bloom Box could be the magical fuel cell that saves the world



Five to ten years from now, you could have a $3000 fuel cell power generator the size of a clock radio in your basement, turning natural gas into electrical power at twice the efficiency possible today. That's the promise of the Bloom Box, a tiny power plant that combines oxygen and natural gas, a biogas or solar energy, and creates electricity.

So far, Bloom Boxes are the size of about four refrigerators, costing $700,000 to $800,000. Early adopters are companies such as eBay and Google, already saving money using these boxes. But the founder of the secretive Bloom Energy, K.R. Sridhar, says that the cheap materials inside and the inherent efficiency and his design could change the world, bringing cheap energy to everyone in a box that will cost less than $3000.

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This caught my eye and i was like...meh ill wait till someone is actually testing. When they announced that Google, Ebay and Starbucks were already testing and for quite sometime with positive results thats got game changer written all over it. I think i also heard that the bloombox is killing the solar production as well ( like 3000 panels ) which is impressive.

Alternative energies are extremely inefficient, but this would change that. I guess that's pretty much stating the obvious.

These neat things always get a lot of hype and never seem to get off the ground. Like how the segway was going to change transportation and city planning. It is a pretty interesting story of how he invented this though. He developed a method of generating oxygen on mars for NASA and then when that mission was scrapped, he reversed the formula and used the oxygen as the input. That is ingenuity at it's finest.