The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company, has made the whole world to turn towards them with there product ”Bloom box.” Its CEO K.R. Sridhar said the goal is to get businesses, and eventually consumers, off the transmission line grid and deliver power at a much lower cost with low emissions which is right now need of the world.
BLOOM BOX ?
It’s a fuel cell, the solid oxide fuel cell patents point to a “yttria stabilized zirconium” material. This formula is used to fabricate an ink-coated floppy-disk-size ceramic tile (with an ink-based anode and cathode) made from ‘beach sand.” These are then stacked into small blocks, and multiple stacks are housed in a unit about the size of a refrigerator. Oxygen is fed into the fuel cell on one side and fuel (Fossil fuels like natural gas or renewable fuels such as landfill gas, or bio-gas, and solar) on the other, the two combine in the cell to create a chemical reaction, which produces electricity. No burning or combustion. No power lines from an outside source, so no emission.
HOW MUCH IS A BLOOM BOX ?
CEO K.R.Sridhar in an interview said that the boxes that companies buy cost between $700,000 and $800,000 and there goal is to make them available to the “average person” for less than $3,000. eBay’s is one of there customers now they use five boxes that run on landfill waste-based bio-gas and generate more power than the company’s 3,000 solar panels, according to eBay CEO John Donahoe and he has also quoted that produces 5 times more than what is required by there concern. The Bloom box is capable of generating electricity at a cost of as little as 8 cents per kilowatt hour, according to reports.Cheaper, in some cases, than commercial electricity prices. One tile generates enough electricity to power a light bulb. Adding feather to there caps Google, Fedex, Wal-Mart, Staples, the San Francisco Airport, and the CIA are some of the high profile companies that is using them.A four-unit box, using natural gas, has been powering a Google data center for 18 months. Here’s a yardstick: a 30,000-square-foot office building would use four of these boxes.
HANDS BEHIND BLOOM BOX?
There is a total investment of about $400 million. Board members and observers include: John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures, and T.J. Rodgers, the CEO of Cypress Semiconductor. Advisers include former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Floyd Kvamme, a partner emeritus at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
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Its nice dude…!!!!
#Gopi Thanks for your comments
well a pretty intresting article !!! this bloom box is gonna be of great use !!!
#Sandeep Singh I accept with you, i think this will definitely make a big impact
Seems interesting…!!
wow.. It’s all abt Fuel Cell …:) that’s awesome.. !!
#Mohana Krishnan When i heard about it for the first time i was also amazed to see such a kind of an invention
Haven’t heard about Bloom Box before.
Glad to learn something new today. Thanks for sharing!
this seems very for the global warming senario… but what about the running cost? cost per unit of electricity?
@ seo Thats a good point it is much more economical than the current methods we follow
I’m more than a little confused as to how this is supposed to use ’solar’ as a fuel. I think the interviewee may have messed up when he agreed that solar would work as a fuel source to run the fuel cell… that or it runs on pixie dust, unicorn droppings AND solar.
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