Bloom Box - Invention of Clean Energy
Bloom Energy or Bloom Box is a solid oxide fuel cell made by Emil Baur and his colleague H. Preis in the late 1950s. The cell uses liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons such as gasoline, diesel or propane produced from fossil or bio sources to generate electricity on the site where it will be used; Bloom Energy representatives assert that it is at least as efficient as a traditional large-scale coal power station.
Bloom Energy is about to make public its invention: a little power plant-in-a-box they want to put literally in your backyard. You'll generate your own electricity with the box and it'll be wireless. The idea is to one day replace the big power plants and transmission line grid, the way the laptop moved in on the desktop and cell phones supplanted landlines. The technology is a square box made of fuel cells that can fit right in the palm of your hand but can also power your entire house.
According to K. R. Sridhar, the founder and CEO of Bloom Energy, a single cell (one 100 × 100 mm metal alloy plate between two ceramic layers) generates 25 watts, enough to light a lightbulb. The company has recently been revealed after secretly serving for large customers such as Google, Ebay, and Fedex. John Doerr, the "Michael Jordan" of the venture capital world, is investing in Bloom Energy.
