Tuesday, February 23, 2010

The New Energy Messiah

In approximately one day the company Bloom Energy will be unveiling it's supposedly life changing solution to the worlds energy demands. After a little research on Bloom the company and it's idea do seem to carry a bit more clout then the normal energy god send. The product was developed by a gentleman named KR Sridhar who before getting the funding or the time to develop the Bloombox worked for NASA and developed a machine that would create sustainable oxygen stores out of the air on Mars. After completing his project he developed an idea about a product that didnt produce oxygen but used it and sought capital through the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins. If this firm rings a bell it's because they are the same firm that funded Google, Amazon, Inuit, Netscape, Verisign and Sun Microsystems when they were technology start-ups. Currently the Bloomboxes are being tested at many high profile locations and have had very minimal problems. Google, Ebay, The City of San Francisco, Wal-Mart and the CIA have all allowed Bloomenergy to place a number of it's Bloomboxes at some of there facilities. With Colin Powel on the board for Bloom they seemed poised to show us something revolutionary when they reveal there new product publicly tomorrow. In other words, this small gamecube sized box of silica wafers painted with two patented substance are stacked on top of each other and when a combination of oxygen and a hydrocarbon hit the surfaces they create a chemical reaction which can easily power the average American home for 7 days a week 365 days a year. Using the gas created naturally in our landfills this box has a very small carbon footprint and is considered a new green energy that as of tomorrow just may revolutionize the way we power our world. Take a look at the video here.

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