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Bloom Box: Secret App May Be Key to Tiny Energy Plant
"Bloom Energy set to unveil green household power plant."
"Set to be unveiled today, the much anticipated Bloom Box—a residential "power plant" about the size of a mini-fridge—could provide cheap, environmentally friendly electricity to U.S. households within ten years, according to Bloom Energy, the company behind the fuel cell based invention."
Wow, when I saw this headline, I thought about everything my group was learned and reading about in Chapter 4 about better energy! They say it is about the size of a fridgerator. "One of these jumbo Bloom Boxes, called Bloom Box Servers, could power a hundred homes, and four of them could power a 35,000-square-foot (3,250-square-meter) office building, Sridhar said on CBS."
In the middle of the bloom box are solid oxide fuel cells. They are coater size plates. Oxygen and natural gas are fed into the Bloom Box and undergo a high-temperature chemical reaction in the fuel cells to produce electricity, heat, carbon dioxide, and water.
A residential Bloom Box should cost around U.S. $3,000.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100224-bloom-energy-bloom-box-sci-tech-green/
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