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Bloom Box Wiki
The three key major value propositions of the Bloom Box: 1. Lower energy costs 2. Clean power 3. Reliable power Bloom Box Fast Facts
- Referred to as “power-plant-in-a-box”, this
product offered by Bloom Energy generates electricity enough to supply a common
household or various numbers of households less electricity dependent areas.
- The bloom box permits houses to generate
electricity on their own with the use of power engines composed of solid-oxide
fuel cells. Additional generated power can even be shared or sold to other
houses.
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The fuel cells used in bloom box are
environmentally friendly because they operate using hydrocarbon fuels, which,
compared to regular power plants, only produces half of the carbon dioxide
emitted by power plants.
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On 2006, the Ion America Inc. was named Bloom
Energy, based on the usage of bloom-energy-fuel cells by the company.
- According to the CEO of Bloomberg Energy, K.R. Sridhar, a bloom box is capable of supplying electricity to four or six houses
in Asia.
- One bloom box would cost between $700,000 to
$800,000
- Google is one of the pioneer users of bloom box.
They use four bloom boxes to power one of their data center for a period of 18
months which operates on natural gas.
- eBay, another pioneer user, installed 5 of these
in their San Jose
office and saved them $100,00 of their energy cost in a period of 9 months.
- Other companies that uses bloom box are Bank of
America, Coca-Cola, Cox Enterprises, FedEx, Staples and Walmart.
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