Bloom Box is the newest buzz in Silicon Valley. It's called the power plant in a box because a Bloom Box the size of an average milk carton can have enough electric energy to power up to four average Asian homes or one average American home. The Bloom Box with the size of an average refrigerator has enough power to manage a hundred homes or one building.
Bloom Box has been launched on February 24 2010. What would you find inside this amazing box? You can
actually see
fuel cells where ceramic and proton membranes are suited. They are
divided by what you call metal catalyst plates. They put a cheap metal alloy
instead of platinum. Slowly methane and oxygen are injected and the whole thing
boils up to a thousand degrees. This is actually produces electricity. A box
that contains about ceramic disk can produce enough power to light up a coffee
house.
The lowly beach sand is the main ingredient of this whole powerhouse innovation. This
is the material that is made to create a ceramic tile that is stacked in small
blocks. These tiles are then coated with green and black ink. The inks are
made from secret ingredients that only the company knows. These are then housed in storage about the size of refrigerator. If you are
interested with this, you need to have about $700,000-$800,000. Today there are major companies using this
including CIA, San Francisco
airport, and even Google. There are also a lot of companies who are in the
testing stage of using this tool.
- the brains behind the Bloom Box and Bloom Energy founder - is poised to lower the prices of these tools. The smallest one can be lower the US$3,000. If you're still curious about the Bloom Box, watch the