The Bloom Box: Energy Breakthrough or Silicon Valley Hype?|Fox News
The blogosphere is abuzz over the disclosure by startup Bloom Energy that it has come up with a fuel cell technology that can replace conventional energy sources.But can it really? The devil, as they say, is in the details — and few of those were made public in an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” program Sunday.The Silicon Valley company’s CEO, K.R. Sridhar, showed off a refrigerator-sized Bloom Box filled with fuel cells and designed to make electricity through a chemical process. The boxes can make energy anywhere, he said, and do so without giving off any emissions.Already, a number of high-profile American corporations have begun testing the technology. A “60 Minutes” reporter visited facilities of eBay, which has installed a number of Bloom Boxes; the e-commerce company put savings from the technology so far at $100,000. Others reported to have installed units include Google and Federal Express.
