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What is Bloom Box?

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.


In the near future, K.R. Sridhar - 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 60 Minutes video feature below: