Added: 1 year ago
From: CBS
Views: 194,332
Sort by time | Sort by thread (beta)

Link to this comment:

Share to:
see all

All Comments (453)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • 60 mintues, please do a follow up story on the Bloom Box soon!!

  • Why aren't we using this NOW??!!!! We're running out of time to get off Oil instead of Obama wasting billions on solar power, why the hell didn't they invest in THIS!!!!!!?!

  • 1$ and dropping very fast

  • Pv panels last for 30 years, zero maintnance, does not need natural gas to produce electicity.

    Cost per watt under a $1

    

  • @solarpanels3 pv panels are incredible but the amount of environmental harm done by their manufacturing heavily outweighs the benefits gained using them as an alternative energy source.

    What the world needs to fucking realize is that energy doesnt have to ONLY be in electricity. The proliferation of geo-thermal storage will go much further than finding new sources......

  • India India India India India India Indiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

    BHARATH MATHA KI JAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.

  • Older, less faster, models of Automatons could in essence be "Donated" to the Masses of the Third and Fourth World. If put into rapid "Mega Project" Mode, these machines in mass could bring an Improvised Nation to "First World" status in a matter of years or maybe even months. The TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY will happen, when will happen? That's the The Six Million Dollar Question.???

  • The half of the world that can afford cheap robots would most probably have more robots than they can handle. Therefore just like an Average Household has a Fridge, Stove, AC, Couple cars, etc. An Average household in the future might have more than one robot. 1 Billion people each owning 2 or 3 robots each costing about the price of a cheap car (e.g $3000-$7000) could generate 10x, 20x, maybe even 50-100x the robots worth in 1 "WORK YEAR". Therefore OVER ABUNDANCE.

  • The cheap robots of the Future would eventually take the place of their "Human Masters", generating "WORK INCOME". Your own personal robot would go to work everyday on your behalf. Of course about HALF of Humanity can barely survive the Daily struggle to Live on less than 1$ a day. Half of Humanity would care less about "Personal" robots because they can barely afford their daily Sustenance. That's where "Robot Charity" might come in to the picture.

  • At first the Global Automation Domination will seem like it's "HEAVEN SENT", but after the initial GREED BUBBLE EXPANSION, after Trillions upon Trillions of Dollars are generated, The Technological Singularity will occur. Machines will create more and more efficient machines. Just like the Model T revolutionized transportation, Mass production of Robots will revolutionized LABOR. Just like you can be a cheap but reliable car today, you'll be able to buy a cheap reliable robot in the future.

  • When 95-97% of the world is out of a job, Humanity will "Revolt" against this Money/Monetary System that has ruled our lives for centuries. The Money/Monetary System will be the Architect of it's own demise. We don't even have to reach 95% Global Unemployment, we just have to have enough people with no jobs, no money to spend on useless products, and Bam!!! The Domino's will fall. Global Corporations will let their GREED for SHORT-TERM Profit blind them from LONG-TERM Collapse.

  • Robotic Automation will ultimately FREE Humanity. 95-97% of all jobs in the world can be done better, faster, more efficiently than a human. From a pizza deliver driver to an Airline Pilot. An Automated A.I. with only sufficient Intelligence to do it's job will eventually be cheaper to buy than to pay human employees. Also considering a machine might be able to do the job of 10 humans, then it's more economically viable for a company.

  • WTF? No beef in this story! What's the physics behind this? Neext..

  • I dont know why i got it stuck in my head... 0:35!!! 0:35!!! HE MAKES IT SOUND SOOOOOOOOOOO SIMPLE. THEN HE LAUGHS LIKE ITS SOO FUCKING SIMPLE.

  • This is outstanding. I know big corporation and ppl who running oil business would do anything and everything to stop him but i hope this thing can comeout in market at affordable price. GOD bless.

  • Ok this dude looks like the poor scientist who dies at the end of the movie..

  • Sadly, it's going to die out eventually. The big electricity corporations (and of course, oil companies who would lose $billions if these cells are installed in cars) will kick in trying to stop this amazing energy revolution by bribing our sellout government... just like it happened with the electric car.

    This guy is a world hero though... he could save us from a catastrophic end after we run out of natural energy sources.

  • I figured I would hear alot more about this by now. The fact I still don't see this expanding or being used more makes think that it's not as good as the hype. I could be wrong but we would see it expanding much faster if it really was putting out the energy as advertised. Bummer because energy and pollution are such big problems.

  • This is really a great idea. Even though it uses fossil fuel, it's still very efficient and far less polluting than conventional power plants.

    Another big factor is the transmission losses. Electricity is transported thousands of miles across the country through several grids and switching stations and sub stations and transformers before it finally reaches the consumer. Imagine transmission losses and losses while stepping up and stepping down voltages. This is really a great idea..

  • what will eventually take over this is the small start-up from CalTech, the Solid Acid Fuel Cells, from SAFcell, inc. It is the newest type of fuel cell technology and it seems to be the most promising. I think we are living in a very exciting time period where green energy will diminish our dependence from oil, and hopefully scale back our troops from the east

  • @fsaari1985 Yeah but I've been hearing and reading about the next "fuel cell" for well over 10 years now .... and the story still remains the same.

  • @jflor98 well, most fuel cell technologies were developed close to a century ago. However, now that the internet has allowed for swifter telecommunications, all sciences have been "turbo charged" and new materials are paving the way for the older, as well as the newer technologies. I saw a interesting research paper where the fuel cell industry is projected to bloom in about three to five years. The story is constantly changing, my friend.

  • George Bush would hate this

  • Per Wired Magazine, it's $12.50 per watt before incentives. That's expensive.

  • I WORK FOR A SHEETMETAL SHOP HERE IN SAN JOSE CA. AND WE HAVE BEING BUILDING THE BOXES FOR BLOOMENERGY. THEY KEEP ORDERING MORE AND MORE EVERY TIME. I HOPE THEY BECOME BIG, THAT WAY THEY WILL KEEP US BUSY

  • @simonsmithmusic If you run something off a hydrocarbon fuel, you'll inevitably have carbon emissions. If a solid oxide fuel cell runs at double the efficiency of conventional energy generation, we halve emissions per unit of power.

    We might not see bloom energy succeed, but I guarantee you'll see smaller versions.

  • Imagine how many jobs will be lost!.

    My question is, is it dangerous?, if it is wireless like a mobile phone could it be harmful?.

    How would it work with your tv etc in this wireless way?, will they have to redesign all electrical appliances?.

    Will it cause cancer?.

  • @moggerd omg

  • @moggerd almost every thing causes cancer and so will this

  • i really want that.

  • Dear Daedley: God does exist but he's too big for your logic to comprehend or accept. Thank You. By the way, following a religion and believing in God are not the same thing, just in case you think so.

  • I like the idea, but until it becomes available to the public, there really is no sense

    in going on 60 Minutes-well, unless they intend to have an IPO to raise more money.

    So, that's probably why KR Sridhar is promoting his company.

    I hate PG&E, so I'd be thrilled to have one humming in my backyard. Let's hope Bloom Energy can pull this off.

  • all it does is trade the electric lines for natural gas lines.

  • lol i thought this was the "other" bloombox hahaha

  • I just ordered 4 of them.

  • This uses natural gas, so it gives off carbon emissions, and you still need to mine the gas and pay for it. Hydrogen fuel cells, by contrast, combine oxygen and hydrogen to creat H2O and an electric current (thus, no GHG emissions if the Hydrogen was created by splitting water with an electric current created from wind or solar power (so why not just have wind/solar? Bc the hydrogen lets you store the energy for when the sun/wind go down). It might defeat the purpose of saving money tho.

  • @sebwingfield solid oxide fuel cells (like the bloom box) can run on hydrogen with no modification FYI

  • LOL her smile just went away once he dissed solar. Shes like, Why should WE trust You?! hes like: Well...lets talk to the customers. ooooo

  • No IPO yet? I want a piece of this action ASAP. To invest conservatively or not conservatively, that is the question.

  • Dave, you are quite a critic for a guy who doesn't understand business and marketing. First you sell the bloom boxes to a bunch of corporations with deep pockets, then you use that money to start building smaller ones and cheaper ones until every one in America can have one. That time is 5-10 years away tops.

  • @fleckx

    You're a little naive if you think the common person will ever get these.

  • @titaniumlibra So you're a psychic. I see. Good for you. How's that working out? Did you put Miss Cleo out of business?

  • @fleckx

    id say 20 years

  • @fleckx I would say 5-10 is very unlikely. Just like they said 65% of homes will have a 3D TV by 2014. Sure.

  • @fleckx I Just hope the PG&E dose not get a hold of these and charge us all, each house on this planet should have a Bloom Box of there own at a very fair and affordable price, this invention is so amazing, even in Black outs the world would have power, the Tesla cars would have there own power plant, AMAZING.

  • @fleckx never gonna happen. you dont understand energy companies

  • @guineapiggyman Sure I do. I know the evils they have gotten away with. I am an advocate for all sorts of alternative energies, including hemp fuel, which is the product that it hurts the most that the government made illegal thanks to coercion from big corporations. But you know what? Times are a-changin my friend. I think as natural gas becomes more prominent, having that natural gas go along with a bloom box will be the perfect marriage. I don't think natural gas companies will ignore Bloom.

  • @fleckx for a guy who understands business and marketing you seem to have skimmed over your math and science. Plain and simple, it's not added up to be as efficient as as they are claiming. 1 year down, 4-9 to go.... :P Let's see if they're still efficient when the clean energy subsidies are reappropriated....

  • 5 boxes each the size of a car saves only 15% of power consumption ?

    that's hardly a technology that can be placed in everyone's home.

    Perhaps good for  third world nations and Nations like USA that do not have Hydro Electricity.

    IT has a use in nations that Burn coal extensively like USA.

  • @dave777blaster I don't know anything about the technology, but 15% of the energy needs of eBay's entire corporate complex is certainly way more than the energy needs of the average home. If 5 of those boxes saved $100,000 in 9 months, that's $20,000 worth of energy per box -- you could power a whole block of homes with one of those!

  • @friendofthefunk the reallly big bucks wait for something that can power individual homes for pennies

    thought this may save some money for big corporations it is far from anything worth cheering for .But Perhaps as you noted this is just a stepping stone we will have to see about that. I seriously doubt this will morph into the holy grail too much money at stake

  • @dave777blaster The point is that is was ridiculous for you to say that because the technology "only" provides 15% of the power for eBay's whole company, it could never be useful for powering homes. 15% of eBay's power consumption is way more than enough to power several homes.

  • @friendofthefunk Its useless to me and to you

    even if it saves the big corporations money you won't ever see it available to you.

  • @dave777blaster Maybe it will and maybe it won't. You're not convincing me you know better than anyone else where this technology will be 10 years from now, and when I pointed out the flaw in your logic regarding the "only 15%" you ignored it and switched to a different rationalization. That suggests that you're just being a naysayer.

  • @dave777blaster Well, Dave....computers were first just used by military and the big corporations and look now....there must have been genius future predictors like you back then as well.

  • if is stupid idea as you say why did google buy and ebay ? smart ass.

  • dave you're a fucking moron, that's the whole fucking point. it says right in the video that they hope to have these in the backyard of every home one day. what a retard you are. get off the internet, fuck head.

  • @dave Not a stupid idea. Actual, our current power grid is very efficient, and large scale fuel cell power plants are arguably a better step to take, rather than house size systems.

    I perform SOFC research in the Colorado Fuel Cell Center. There are a lot of people, who I guarantee are smarter than you, that believe this is a great idea. Check out Protonex, a for profit SOFC company who sells 500 watt systems to the military for recharging batteries in the field

  • oOoooO its super clean only exhausting CO2 but it still uses fossil fuels, wouldn't the price of natural gas go up if not how long would it take for natural gas prices to increase?

  • At the Colorado Fuel Cell Center and many other places, people are working on gas reforming (both internal and before the cell) such that cells can run on virtually any hydrocarbon fuel.

    Right now, they will run on anything, but finding operating conditions for sustained use is a difficult operation.

    Carbon in, carbon out. You can't build a hydrocarbon power source without exhausting carbon, but the promise of fuel cells is efficiencies that would cut carbon emission in half

  • this is random but at 0:57 look how he adds another "s" sound at the end of customers...it made me laugh...but the bloom box looks awesome

  • oh and i want a bloom box!!!!

  • ppl need to realize that the wealthy leaders on top don't give a shit about anyone on the bottom..

    that money and greed has taken over the world..

    that the government, police and army are just huge gangs handling only what matters to them and whom they answer to..

    all life is about these days is money!!! substance and morals are no longer existent.

  • the evil greedy corporations and bankers will never allow this to happen.

  • @Pro902

    Is that sarcasm, or do you really have no opinions of your own?

    Evil corporations don't have nearly as much power as you are made to believe. the Bloom Box will come to fruition.

  • @JDajerC Negative.

  • @Pro902 let me tell you something else, it is more powerful then that.... it can be 50 to 100% more effiecent

  • Before I judge, I want to know EXACTLY HOW it works

  • @Pro902 true that..

  • @Pro902 - oh this might be a line in the sand worth fighting. I would be wiling to sharpen up my pitchfork and storm the Bastille over this.  Truth be told, there are more "us" than "them" in this world - they know it and it scares them.

  • hahaha

  • so whats the catch? what does it run on?

    do we have to keep refueling with coal or something?

  • @nic0dem8D natural gas, bi-gas or solar energy

  • it runs on natural gas, its just very efficient so its cheaper than buying power from the power-plant (well until you pay it off), but at the end of the day it still consumes and pollutes.

  • This video brightened my day, i bet the bankers are pissed off about this! DOWN THE INTERNATIONAL THUG BANKERS!

  • big oil will not leave peacefully and it will fight new tech

  • @Axenmoon

    Big oil will just produce the natural gas and make profit that way.

  • Whats the problem with making profit? Whoever provides you energy will make a profit. Natural Gas will keep the money inside the US. Unfortunately politics keeps us from using our own Oil.

  • I didn't have time to go through all the comments, but the few I read I agree with Fordi. We were just discussing this in one of my classes (Energy Efficiency Engineering). We watch the whole interview and man it bothered me that they use the term "clean emissions" not really. Also, this is good for a company that obtains energy at a constant rate, not for the regular home when at night you use less than half of what you do during the day. Good idea, but imo they are misleading this information.

  • Amazing!

  • excellent segment by Lesley Stahl

    If you're looking for more DETAILS check out this rare interview with KR Sridhar at the Fresh Dialogues Channel

    1. is Bloom Box really zero polluting?

    2. why is it more energy efficient?

    3. how can it become the gas station for the future?

    Check out this exclusive interview at Fresh Dialogues

  • lol she kinda sounds like a bitch when she asks him those two questions...just kind of an aggressive tone

  • This could be the technology leap forward to spur on other companies to develop large fuel cell power plants, that would be renewable and eventually generate as much power as a nuclear power plant (typical).

    It would also mean, no meltdowns, no terrorist attacks as everyone would have these etc... I'am talking 50 years or possibly more, but still, at least this company came up with it and went for it... if ebay are using it, its obvious it works.

  • no, no one can find smart white people. lol.

    ps. this ass never worked for nasa. he's faker than pleather. he'd be in jail right now if he had worked for nasa and was selling nasa tec on the private market.

  • You mean... white Americans are the only intellegent being here on Earth?

  • Are you serious?

  • @casan20007

    Fuck off. I'm caucassian but leave afroamericans alone. If you're white and proud of it, think again, because people like you make us look like asses.

  • @casan20007

    Dont be fasist. There are two kind of people. educated and uneducated.. that is all..

  • I found the full interview. then posted it.

  • The guy researches for 8 yrs and then comes up with this. Venture company would like to get their money back. Maybe it is publicity to get peoples attention. Applicants ask company how green they are, man thats one of the lamest thing I ever heard. Applicants would kiss ass to get a job.

    The CBS piece has all the elements of a classic infomercial. You gotta see who is behind the venture company. They will screw some people, and then get away with "Accounting Errors"

  • Do you guys think this invention might have a negative impact on the global economy?

  • it isn't real

  • @leaualorin

    because before,it cost "trillions" for a single cell which uses..hydrogen.......now we can use natural gas,which America has so much we could power the country for 100 years...

  • There's much more to it than what this short CBS 60 Minutes clip shows. Bloom Energy has solved some difficult materials issues which allows the Bloom Box to operate at far higher temperatures and thus higher efficiencies than previous Solid Oxidizer Fuel Cells (SOFCs) have in the past, it doesn't need a reformer for multi-fuel use and has much higher expected reliability and lower maintenance costs. It's a significant improvement.

  • Power generation from mixing pure oxygen and fuel?

    What a novel concept.

    To be fair, this is an interesting battery technology, and a more interesting marketing campaign for it.

  • Looking for more details on Bloom Energy? check out this rare interview with the CEO. He answers:

    1. what's in a Bloom Box?

    2. is it really non polluting?

    3. why is it more energy efficient?

    4. what's the hydrogen aspect?

    5. why might Bloom Boxes become the gas station of tomorrow?

    Check out the FreshDialogues channel for this exclusive interview and other green focused interviews with Tom Friedman, Paul Krugman, Martin Sheen and many more...

  • うわさのエネルギー源。発表間近!

  • AMBER LAMPS will solve all the world's energy problems people!!!

  • i want one

  • I think it needs to be said that the benefit to the Bloombox is not a cleaner technology but a more efficient one. More efficient means less fuel consumption which leads to lower emissions. But it is a 0 Sum game and the Bloombox would be just a step in the right direction.

  • Man I hope this is real. They released a new story today about a new solar panel the size of a wallet but it's not smooth glass but rather looks like sand paper with a gritty surface. They said one panel can run a lightbulb. It would only take about 20 of them to power your house wich would take up about as much room as a large poster or a framed painting. But I guess you still need truck batteries to store the power for night time.

  • Your house consumes the power of 20 light bulbs?

    Where do you live, a cardboard box? 20x 60W bulbs is only 1800W of power. Thats enough to power your water heater and your washer at the same time, but not your dryer (ever).

    The average household consumes about 1000kWh/month...1800W for, say, 10 hours a day for 30 days...gives you 540kWh...and thats assuming you get 10 hours of full-intensity daylight every day...which isn't possible.

  • lol.. ok, still it will use a lot fewer panels than the standard panels used today. But this looks more promising.

  • weird, we don't like to discuss politics, yet we are all represented by one person sent to say whats best for all of us... If we don't talk about whats best for us? you'll only know whats best for you, and you can't please everyone unless there all want the same things... Just a thought

  • Yeah well a wiser man once told me there is nothing else worth talking about.

  • This is a Ponzi scam... big time

  • A wise man once told me there are 2 things you should never discuss about and always keep to yourself : 1)Politics 2) Religion.

  • @BrownstoneAruba Those are both worthless if you don't discuss them with others.

  • I understand your point.But there are some of us that would enjoy a discussion that is not off topic.I dont beleive that I'm the only one here who gets tired of scrolling over comments that does not have anything to do with the main subject....THE BLOOM BOX REMEMBER?

  • You`re the one who went off-topic first, Dude.

  • (sigh) scroll down and read everything before you react.

  • Comment removed

  • hey what was the result of that whole big "cern" experiement?

  • ...its so damn cheap to make energy with fusion (not cold fusion..but the kind that stars run on...)

    ...companies cant make a profit................

  • fusion happens in temperatures in the millions... you're probably talking about fission, the power that drives nuclear power plants.

  • Comment removed

  • I was really excited when I first saw this that it might really be something big. It's great that it gives a high efficiency output from natural gas, but it still (unfortunately) has CO2 emissions. It's a great idea, and is a great way to make our natural gas reserves last longer, but...

  • no co2 output

  • If you say it produces no CO2, just where does the carbon go? The fuel is natural gas, i.e., methane (CH4). Does the carbon just magically disappear into the lateral universe?

  • You are missunderstanding the engineering at work here. The improvement is not in the source. The improvement is in the process and technology. The box is more efficient then traditional energy technologies. Using less fuel for the same energy consumption. So you still have the 1 to 1 fuel to CO2 ratio but your emitting less because your using less.

  • Amber Lamps > Cap and Trade

  • Ok, so the fuel cell elements are supposedly cheap and easy to make.

    So what the hell costs $700,000? Plumbing? Looks phony to me. Probably just another impractically expensive fuel cell design. That's the big secret. Just playing for investment money like all the other con men.

    Well I'll be glad as anyone if it works out, but I wont be surprised if we have to listen to 30 years of kooks telling us "the tech was suppressed!!!!"

  • @mranenome I think the cost is high because of the development expenses and low volume production. VCR's used to cost over $1000 back in the 80's. Volume was low, adoption slow, and the war with Betamax didn't help.

  • No it works. What youll find inside the box is a monkey peddling a bicycle generating electricity.

  • One thing that is not a hoax is the polar ice caps and mountain ices are melting at an alarming rate. You guys who think global warming is a hoax better hope you are wrong because natural varriability of climate is not something we can correct but greenhouse gas emissions is correctable.

  • @rockpianoguy

    yet there is data now showing up lately that it was alot more warmer during the middle ages than current modern times....how do you explain that?

    i believe in gloabal warming but not a human related issue......

  • Too good to be true... it usually is.

    In this case?

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmm....

  • the 300 Spartans and I agree with you. ;)

    But even if it was true, its way out of budget for a lot of people.

  • Maybe its tesla tech kind of stuff!

    Sure seems do-able anyway!

    I want one,well maybe two lil ones!

  • I'm still holding out for cold fusion. :)

  • The only problem for this technology is that it requires gases which will still have to be processed and shipped to the source point of energy generation. However, it will still multiply by many times the potential energy of gas reserves currently in production.

    Ideally, these systems will be deployed as hybrids, utilizing solar, wind, or hydro-generation, coupled with high-capacity batteries, thus further increasing the potential energy available in our current and future natural gas reserves.

  • WHAT ARE THEY?!

  • Comment removed

  • Coward!

  • tesla is laughing from the grave at these sheeple

  • @7StoryMagnet Yeah I know... It's frustrating to see free electricity be kept under the rug. It's all about money making.

  • Comment removed

  • Nothing new here. I had a Bloom Box in the 80's. I was carrying it on my shoulder and it was working great. I was listening to Blon Jovi with it.

  • long stretch for a joke

  • Donahoe = Satan

  • ebay spent 4 million on 5 boxes to save $100k/year energy.. that would take 40 years to break even, and they'll probably be broken by then.

    stupid.

  • @MotorolaOpus have u just taken managerial accounting lol.

    Ebay might have taken money for this just to endorse the product. who know??

    Those cooperation never loses money. They are smarter than us the consumer. jaja

  • You forgot the State and federal Tax Breaks. No wonder California is in bankruptcy and giving IOU's instead of cash.

  • i just like to say its a great step in the right direction, but isn't it funny that we are still relying on fuel to run the damn thing. Even if its biofuel that it can run on, which we still haven't found a great source for, i'm sure at the beginning its going to be run on only natural gas, which means the war for fossil fuel will still go on. YAY.. Another thing isn't it wonderful how he's talking about helping the world, LET ME paint my house and car with that NANOPAINT he has patent. I'll pay

  • Bah, it'll never replace trusty, reliable whale oil.

  • The "Holy Grail" of energy would be Perpetual Energy. not w/e this is.

    That is no opinion one way or the other, just saying rofl.

  • so how much does this one worth?

  • 800,000, they are trying to make it worth 3000 so everyone(most people) can have one.

  • DANG! that is so expensive....how long will it take if they reduce it to 3,000...i guess it would take 5 years or more isnt it

  • he looks like the avatar man

  • You see nothing wrong with calling someone "negro"? In case you didn't know, African Americans find that term highly insulting and racist. Perhaps not so in Europe. Moreover, what would you call a turk or a native American, or a Uzbek? What about an Indian since racially Indians are not negroids, causacians, or mongoloids? So much for correctness...

  • ever thought that maybe we dont care if they are offended? - really means nothing to us?

  • Why is CNN not covering this news?

  • Great segment by Lesley Stahl. But if you want more detail - check out Fresh Dialogues channel for a rare exclusive interview with Bloom Energy CEO who answers:

    1. is the Bloom Box non polluting?

    2. how soon will we see a refrigerator sized Bloom Box?

    3. how can it become the gas station of tomorrow?

    This and more green focused interviews of Tom Friedman, Paul Krugman, Martin Sheen and many more at Fresh Dialogues Channel

  • well thats just great, but what the fuck does it do?

  • Your "climate gate" amounts to zero support for your climate change denials. People will make mistakes and are prone to being human, but in no way does any of it dispute or displace the bulk of the scientific evidence from multiple and reliable sources indicating GCC is happening now. Too much CO2 in the atmosphere and saturating the oceans is bad for humans and other life forms. End of story.

  • this is retarded they didnt even attempt to hint at what it runs on

  • Amber Lamps will stop the energy crisis.

  • Bloom Box < EPIC BEARD BOX.

  • At least this technology makes no global warming. It would be nice we could replace more of our coal burning and gas burning turbine driven power plants with these.

  • global warming is a hoax, look up climate gate. IF CBS REMOVES THIS, YOU KNOW THEY'RE LYING TO YOU.

  • Global warming may or may not be real. Cancer caused by pollution is real. Clean energy is the only way to go.

  • LOL I love it may or may not be real. Go check the source code naive one, you'll see...

  • It is naive for you to think that anyone can answer the question of whether global warming is real in this lifetime. The real answers to whether humans have had any effect on the climate will not be known for thousands of years. If they are having an effect, by the time is it absolutely "known," it will be too late to do anything about it.

  • It uses sand or a square silicon flat plate. Oxygen goes into one side and natural gas goes into the other and they produce electricity without burning natural gas which makes Co2 greenhouse gas. Natural gas is made from animal, plant and microorganism fossels and take 300 million years to make; natural gas is not unlimited resource but will run out. As a result, wind, solar and hydrogen fuel cell will out compete this technology in the future but it's effiency will still make him rich.

  • Comment removed