If this really does make it past big oil and electricity companies, of course that would be absolutely amazing but what would happen to our economy? How many people in the U.S. are employed by PG&E and Big Oil companies?
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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.
@mel577 Inventors have reported the Feds threatening them with imprisonment for threatening national security by threatening the oil industry. Without a scarcity based society they could not maintain control of the masses. Much easier to keep people in fear and poverty than to actually have to guard them with soldiers.
what's the point of this crap if its decade away??? LIke anything else, the 'dream' machine is always a decade away. I want something now which works. More fossil fuel I guess.
dam apu. Indians sometimes have some lack of witts. Cant he even understand that better than stacking, he has the capability to roll the cell, for better effeciency? The greater the area, the greater the effeciency. Like with capacitors.
@rrdSilva Well stacking and rolling use the same volume to surface area, and stacking creates cubes which are more volume efficient than cylinders when they are grouped/bundled.
Would be great if they can create the chemical reaction inside the box using solar power instead of natural gas. Would make it totally independant of the grid and be virtually endless free power except for maintenance of course.
Keep watch for the news story about this company being acquired by some bigger corporation, which will then shelve this product forever. We'll never see it to market.
@youtubasoarus Just like they did to the Hydrosonic Pump. James Griggs got screwed. I called the company and they said "the tests were all wrong, inaccurate" it was all a lie. So, I guess the firemans engineers were all crazy.
@jasonmushersee from what I read, it is suppose to be able to do that. I bet it could be optimized for that. Actually any compost heap should have some gas which it could use. I'm not sure if you need to bottle the gas or catch the methane coming from the poop first.
At least the technology is out there and being sold NOW. We can only hope. The interests against this type of tech are very, very powerful. Coal, Oil, Nuclear and others have a lot to lose. Personally, I'm going to try solar in my house in Mexico. Almost always sunny at some part of the day.
I remember 30 years ago solar WATER heaters were ALREADY efficient enough for domestic use (just cuts down on electricity or gas used for heating water)
Then solar PV they said would be 'viable' in 20 years' time.. that was 30 years ago too.
If they can build big boxes now then for sure the small ones were working 5 years ago!!
So sad how 'Corporate greed' gets in the way of 'funding' & rolling it out to PEOPLE (as well as big corporations)!
@ejbh3160 Think back to computers. They started at very high costs and they were very big and bulky. Now you have little ones in your cell phone. The same thing is occurring here too. It is a new technology. It is just too expensive to make them to put them at consumer prices. They will take time to become cheap.
Except these are ALREADY small & relatively 'cheap' compared to present technology & with 'mass production' would be even cheaper & smaller.
He says a box the size of a loaf of bread can run a home.. well my 'gas boiler' is about 20X as big & the coal power station down the road.. what's the 'cost' to us & the environment?
The thing that drove the computer market (to use your analogy) was/is the 'domestic market'
Sorry imo its just corporate conflicts of interests BS
@ejbh3160 "He says a box the size of a loaf of bread can run a home." That doesn't include the heat exchangers, pumps, control systems, mass flow controllers, power conditioning electronics, etc. That's only the size of the fuel cell stack, not everything it takes to make a nice system.
I'll be 37 by the time i'll have the money to set up that guy's (in the video) deam of everything cheap. yupp i mean everything, food is the only problem. i only started making the engine.
@MadHatterTruth That's ignorant. There are many for profit companies producing fuel cell devices. Why is it stupid? Cause you don't understand how fuel cells work?
Think of it like a battery that is continuously fed fuel
@MadHatterTruth That's ignorant. There are many for profit companies producing fuel cell devices. Why is it stupid? Cause you don't understand how fuel cells work?
Think of it like a battery that is continuously fed fuel
@Charles2337 The idea of fuel cells has been around since the 19th century. Solid oxide fuel cells (like what he's using) have been around for several decades. He's not done anything new, aside from being on 60 minutes with the idea. SOFC research occurs all over the globe
@Charles2337 Hopefully they'll be much more mainstream soon. There are prototype laptops that run for weeks, cell phones, large systems, and lots of other ideas. Motorola claimed a fuel cell phone would hit the market in 2010 as of last summer
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I get that they would want to test it on facilities that use alot of electricity...but here is an idea why not get some test models in residential homes and try them out with the people who actually NEED to save money, and not the people who are rich already
put these things in cars..."natural gas tanks" + bloom energy + electric engine equals INDEPENDENCE FROM EXTERNAL POLITICALLY UNSTABLE REGIONS OF THE WORLD...should of been the first thing this company implemented.....the natural gas that goes to your home can become a gas station for your car....
put these things in cars..."natural gas tanks" + bloom energy + electric engine equals INDEPENDENCE FROM EXTERNAL POLITICALLY UNSTABLE REGIONS OF THE WORLD...should of been the first thing this company implemented.....the natural gas that goes to your home can become a gas station for your car....
The future's bright. Life is better for us than it was for people who lived 100 years ago. Life for people 100 years from now, should be better than ours. Of course, an asteroid strike , a super volcanic eruption etc... could change that.
Don't get me wrong, I think the bloom box is cool and definitely is greener than many existing technologies that we have now. But don't we want to get away from 'fuel' power for the future? This guy wants to make one for $3,000 for each home he says. Wikipedia says it will last for 10 years. That's about $25 a month + fuel source. It can use various fuel sources, but fuel isn't a renewable energy source. It's still a finite resource, well more finite than say the sun's energy.
On the positive side he does say it can work with solar power, but they are mostly boasting natural gas as the main means for it. He does seem like he's gotten this tech down decent and I hope he can make it happen.
@addiktion13 Fuel cells need a fuel, such as a hydrocarbon or hydrogen. Her question was ill-prepared. If they had more time to talk, what he meant was, fuel cells can be ran in electrolysis, thereby storing energy which can be used later. You could use a fuel cell system to store energy when the sun isn't shining, but a fuel cell won't run on sunlight
Shut up you old grouchy skeptic. The reason this hype is real is because they are focused on stationary power. Not cars! Fuel Cells best bet is in stationary power -because the energy storage is never a probem on a property, but is a problem with a small moving vehicle. This guy is on the right track. We could use a bloombox to convert hydrogen one day.
i dont think that this is the best solution. there are people working with technologies far superior to this that are deemed illegal. some of these people end up missing. i do find it strange that arnold is there and that colin powell is on the board of directors or whatever. sounds like the government has finally found an energy solution that costs enough. what about free energy? and where is that natural gas coming from?
@jjjankman Read my bio. My solution will get 80-90% of the NG/fuel out of the average person's life for about 10k for a 20 kw system vs 140k for a bloom 20kw system. Mine runs on solar, bloom does not. Mine will run a car AND provide torque...bloom's will not. A GE combined cycle gets the SAME efficiency as a bloom box. Big deal... Not the solution... Again, read my bio.
probably not, the big power companys have more money than you can imagine, they have the power and funding and expencive lawyers to create masive delays... people with power usually go to great leanths to keep from loosing their power and these people are certanly no diffrent... they will never alow it to happen.
@dirtTdude I don't buy these kinds of conspiracy theories. A completely independent set of people and investors would put their money up in a heartbeat if there is a good chance of payback. That's what business people do, they invest in risky ventures all the time. Much of the tech industry is made possible by that for instance.
I strongly urge people to think their conspiracy theories through, because it's not real.
@dirtTdude You're suggesting that all corporations and all investors all are one big club, where they pass memos to each other, what to do and what not to do. It's all "controlled".
Fuel cell is not a source of energy... It's an energy converter. Just that it does not produce other pollutants, but CO2... also, you need to feed it fossil fuel still..
Well you are right about using bio gas, but you need to clean the bio gas. And depending on the way you get the gas, it might not be sustainable (competition with food, and use of forest wastes).
WAIT!!!!! this thing needs natural gas! that means were a slave to fossil fuels again OH NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! they will get us at the pump and get us for electricity now too ITS A CONSPIRACY!!! LOL really tho, why the hell would i buy natural gas to create electricity, pay thousands of dollars to give the gas company billions, ok sounds like some one has thought of yet another milking scheme, not free energy
yeah like electromagnetics maybe? its in the vacuum of space, its in magnets, you can harness this for electricity. Why the hell would i pay for gas to make electricity. You sound like an idiot
The energy has to come from somewhere. Gas contains energy, and apparently, running gas through a fuel cell produces electricity at a lower overall cost than buying it from the grid. Otherwise this business wouldn't work.
@a1mint The bloom costs 5-6cents for the fuel and 9 cents for the box for a total of 14-15 cents/kw-hr. PGE rapes people to up to 40 cent/kw-hr. 14 cents is at a fist 14 cents makes sense but not compared to what my solution....
@a1mint My solution is my new engine, solar collection and energy storage. See my channel.
Our energy needs are mostly thermal and torque, NOT electrical. If you use LEDs, and low power PC, where total power for information is < 2% (DOE figure).... Lights, microwaves, and miscel. appliances can be less than 5-10%.
The rest is air movement, heat, cooling, process, torque (transit). A car is a moving house that keeps you warm or hot. Electricity cannot solve our energy needs.
@seaplaneguy1 How do you propose you make torque energy? All energy has to come from another energy source. Don't you think that electricity is in there somewhere? Like how an electric motor can make torque, which obviously requires electricity. How do you propose to do that without electricity?
@a1mint The engine is a torque device, just like a piston crank or turbo is a torque device. It is then connected to an electric generator if you want electricity or is used to torque a fan, wheel, or transform temperatures up or down. When you get the lighting right (LEDs, compacts...) and information low energy (laptops, Ipods) then electricity is only "needed" where is is required or about 5-10% of all energy. The rest is thermal (heating/cooling) and torque (movement). simple.
@a1mint Mine engine can run on an electric battery but it does NOT have an electric motor. At the shaft it is as efficient overall as an electric motor, but without the limitations of an electric motor. For example, the Gm Volt is 55-60% when ran on electricity only. Mine is the same, but you can get 40% useful heating/cooling where as the Volt cannot. Checkmate....
@a1mint Energy can be NG, gasoline, diesel, propane or solar, wind, or braking or inertia recovery.
Electric motors are only 95% in a very narrow range. A 120kw GM Volt motor may be less than 30% around town where the power required is 3-5 kw. In addition, during braking they are typically only 25% max, whereas mine is over 90%.
The Bloom box is NOT the answer in any way. It is very heavy, and so it an electric motor. My engine makes it obsolete....
@seaplaneguy1 The efficiency problems in electrical vehicles is not the electric motor itself. it's highly unlikely that any industrial motor even exists that is only 30% efficient. It would mean that 70% of the electric energy is converted to heat. Highly highly unlikely. I agree that 95% is rather high and most practicaly motors are probably lower, but to try to sell a story how it's more often towards the 30% range, is just pure false information.
@seaplaneguy1 The problem with electric vehicles is the storage of the energy. THERE I could easily agree that an electric vehicle overall, including the battery, that the efficiency isn't very high. How high and low I don't know, and if either of us makes any claim, you or I ought to back that up with a credible reference. Simply making claims with numbers doesn't convince anyone.
@a1mint The GM Volt is 55-60% on the highway. From plug to bat .9, out of bat .9, through module .9. .9 x..9 x.9 = .729 Then at .9 for the motor you get 65%, but that is only at peak eff. An electric motor has a "BSFC" curve just like a piston engine does. A 110 kw GM electric motor at 5kw would be well below 50%. This is common. .73 x .5 = 36% peak around town. Bottom line is it is likely 25-60% city-highway efficient. Mine...60% at all time, does solar, 90% recovery...Checkmate
@seaplaneguy1 Fuck off with the pathetic "checkmate" bull crap please. I'm not even necessarily disagreeing or agreeing here.
I told you, if you make claims, you need to back your claims with credible references, or otherwise anything you claim is completely meaningless here.
I'd like to see credible information that backs your claims and would like to consider it.
@seaplaneguy1 So, does "your" (which remains to be seen what "ownership" you have on it) motor use a fuel cell to convert a fuel to electricity? The long term future possibility is that we'll use hydrogen for energy storage and a fuel cell to convert to electricity that then drives an electric motor. Plenty of challenges to overcome to make this economical and safe.
@a1mint So, does "your" (which remains to be seen what "ownership" you have on it) motor use a fuel cell to convert a fuel to electricity? The long term future possibility is that we'll use hydrogen for energy storage and a fuel cell to convert to electricity that then drives an electric motor. Plenty of challenges to overcome to make this economical and safe.
The small box in his hand, claimed as powerful to supply a home, is not a device, but just the "wafers" of cells, piled up . The device for home use, for 3000 dollars, will have a final size of a home air condition machine.
I call bullshit on this thing.20 years ago ballard claimed in 10 years they would have hydrogen fuel cells and hydrogen powered cars.. well so much for that.This is a fake false flag unrealistic device that will eat up millions of investers dollars and never give a dime of profit back
Well... Wasn't the idea of hydrogen fuel cell cars always ridiculous? But put into the spotlight because of oil interests?
The electric car was killed because people would no longer be dependent on fueling stations. Where as, with hydrogen power, people would still need the oil companies.
The oil companies would simply re-tool their gas-stations to serve hydrogen.
This is the man with vision and idea, his life is his work that is why he say "it's my baby", i really admire this man. He can make it work, but im afraid that the doubters and looters will get to him. ( Ayn Rand)
PPL laough at Tesla when he said that in future ppl will talk from one end of the world to another with devices small as mach boxes.
long story short:
It is so hard to create but so easy to sit and spit on other ppls work and wish they dont be better then you and not to succede
@danilo986 This is not his idea personally, people have been working on solid oxide fuel cells for decades before, all around the world. He's not even the first to produce commercially available units. But, he was the first to get on 60 minutes, so he's getting a ton of credit. Not that I'm against SOFCs, I just wish all the previous research received credit
@danilo986 I agree amazing invention but pause for one sec and b4 we all clap like seals lets remember technolgieslike this, some better and some not have been supressed for decades swept under that super large carpet of big goverments and comglomerates for the purpose of lineing there pockets, the electro magnetic inventions dont even need sand, these ones spificly have been around and with held for 70 years, this is fact!
See , how a simple invention , can be stuck with development , when the right people don`t support it .
but you get Swarceneger , and Colin Powell and you are protected from assacination by the Fuel companies . (Coal , Gas , Oul , all of them ) i bet they whant to get rid of this dude now .
WTF ...A "64 cube" refridgerator size unit is already here for Ebay and Google..... But.... A "2 cube" unit for my home is still a decade away. His lips are flappin'.. yet he speaks nothing, my lord. LOL
I wonder what chemicals are laminated on the ceramic? What other bi products are released? In a traditional fuel cell you just get water. I also wonder how long these things will last?
Excellent news !!! Q: Does this innovation mean that we would still be tied to natural gas supply pipes? Would individual homes still have a monthly utility bill? I thought the goal was to foster true "off grid" freedom and self-contained renewable energy. The future is still bright. Thanks for sharing. Later, peace. 1.
While this would still tie you to your local natural gas company it has the potential to be fueled by any vaporized hydrocarbon or pure hydrogen. Also the cost of a gas pipe is a lot less to maintain then a power line and prevents energy loss due to the resistance in power lines. The great part is even though it uses a fuel we could in there use other, more centralized power sources (solar, nuclear, wind ect) to make fuel and the pipe it to the home. greatly improving energy transfer ratio.
"No burning" is not factual... The chemical reaction is "burning" and it still produces CO2. However, its still a great move in the right direction and could be supplied with biofuels in the future... Come on USA, we can win the Green energy race.
what they said was "No combustion" and while they produce the same particles (Water, CO2) this is not the same, this is a much more efficient technology as more of the energy released is turned to flowing electrons
I'm all for it,, For the record, the narrator says burning. I just don't want viewers to loose the fact that its still makes CO2. Its not carbon neutral just yet, unless you use biofuels.
if it was made open source and put on wiki it would stay alive.
martys2002 4 days ago
He is real hero, He will save million lifes, no more war for oil, Chinese system will coming big, the price will drop like to a computer
i am waiting 6 month to a year to buy
energyalt56 3 weeks ago
If this really does make it past big oil and electricity companies, of course that would be absolutely amazing but what would happen to our economy? How many people in the U.S. are employed by PG&E and Big Oil companies?
s0medudeonline 1 month ago
Energy Crisis Solution: Place methane collection devices in every room in the White House, Senate and House of Representatives. With the amount of bullshit slung around in these key areas our energy crisis will be solved worldwide. :)
mindyourowndamnself 5 months ago
Please do not compare Nicola Tesla to this guy (respect)
Tesla was a multi field genius
I am a doubter of this technology but I have no intension of "get to him"
At insolation level of 3 Kw/sqm/per day and no need for oxygen and natural gas talks for it selfs.
solarpanels3 7 months ago
The very oldest civilization in the world.Indian.. It will exist....
mad7sree 7 months ago
K.R Sridhar.wowwwww. He is an Indian.As everyone saying Indians will lead the world.......... For sureeeeeeeeee.
mad7sree 7 months ago
has anyone heard of "Blue Gen"? They are using Blue Gen in homes in Australia. It seems to work just like the Bloom Box. I can't find it on youtube
Majorjoy6565 8 months ago
Will these stand up to a coronal mass ejection? EM pulse?
needparalegal 9 months ago
decade away... read -> never, like Tesla tech which is 100 years away... in the past.
oxiigen 9 months ago
God works through this man!
kapacon 10 months ago
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.
mel577 10 months ago 9
@mel577 Inventors have reported the Feds threatening them with imprisonment for threatening national security by threatening the oil industry. Without a scarcity based society they could not maintain control of the masses. Much easier to keep people in fear and poverty than to actually have to guard them with soldiers.
needparalegal 9 months ago
@mel577 This runs on natural gas...a fossil fuel... It does not "solve" the problem any more than a combined cycle GE system that gets 60%.
There is a better way. Read my bio....
seaplaneguy1 4 months ago
@mel577
I disagree, clean energy is actually going to become a big money maker in the next few decades.
SaturnEternity 2 weeks ago
what's the point of this crap if its decade away??? LIke anything else, the 'dream' machine is always a decade away. I want something now which works. More fossil fuel I guess.
guicapone2 1 year ago
Green my ass. It uses natural gas!
dam apu. Indians sometimes have some lack of witts. Cant he even understand that better than stacking, he has the capability to roll the cell, for better effeciency? The greater the area, the greater the effeciency. Like with capacitors.
rrdSilva 1 year ago
@rrdSilva Well stacking and rolling use the same volume to surface area, and stacking creates cubes which are more volume efficient than cylinders when they are grouped/bundled.
needparalegal 9 months ago
SAN JOSE 408
JaaS0on 1 year ago
In the end you still use natural gas ... why not eliminate the box and just go to natural gas ?..
reference2me 1 year ago
@reference2me
its about chemical reaction
not burning the fuel > steam > turbine > electricity (low efficiency and less environment friendly)
Tolstoy202 1 year ago 2
Would be great if they can create the chemical reaction inside the box using solar power instead of natural gas. Would make it totally independant of the grid and be virtually endless free power except for maintenance of course.
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urgencyharviefcem 1 year ago
Keep watch for the news story about this company being acquired by some bigger corporation, which will then shelve this product forever. We'll never see it to market.
youtubasoarus 1 year ago
@youtubasoarus Just like they did to the Hydrosonic Pump. James Griggs got screwed. I called the company and they said "the tests were all wrong, inaccurate" it was all a lie. So, I guess the firemans engineers were all crazy.
analyzingfunny 1 year ago
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crazychri1 1 year ago
mmhmmm....and wheres he gonna get the natural gas from? Drilling?
steveo20007 1 year ago
@steveo20007 Drilling is one way, Penn State has a photochemical option, distilling wood or other organic matter, decaying matter are others.
ReadingDave 1 year ago
The next GATES of the power world, God speed!
Masdiaz59 1 year ago
wow.. a commercial before and after the video?
bucketx 1 year ago
Could it run on cow poop methane instead of natural gas?
jasonmushersee 1 year ago
@jasonmushersee from what I read, it is suppose to be able to do that. I bet it could be optimized for that. Actually any compost heap should have some gas which it could use. I'm not sure if you need to bottle the gas or catch the methane coming from the poop first.
ReadingDave 1 year ago
At least the technology is out there and being sold NOW. We can only hope. The interests against this type of tech are very, very powerful. Coal, Oil, Nuclear and others have a lot to lose. Personally, I'm going to try solar in my house in Mexico. Almost always sunny at some part of the day.
davehutchinson67 1 year ago
Could you put this into a car and then refill with natural gas in your own garage?
chairde 1 year ago
take out the ad.. is well let just said i dont want to see it.
carrerasrivera 1 year ago
same BS they pulled with solar panels!
I remember 30 years ago solar WATER heaters were ALREADY efficient enough for domestic use (just cuts down on electricity or gas used for heating water)
Then solar PV they said would be 'viable' in 20 years' time.. that was 30 years ago too.
If they can build big boxes now then for sure the small ones were working 5 years ago!!
So sad how 'Corporate greed' gets in the way of 'funding' & rolling it out to PEOPLE (as well as big corporations)!
WHY 10 years??
ejbh3160 1 year ago
@ejbh3160 Think back to computers. They started at very high costs and they were very big and bulky. Now you have little ones in your cell phone. The same thing is occurring here too. It is a new technology. It is just too expensive to make them to put them at consumer prices. They will take time to become cheap.
DIEorPERISH 1 year ago
@DIEorPERISH
Except these are ALREADY small & relatively 'cheap' compared to present technology & with 'mass production' would be even cheaper & smaller.
He says a box the size of a loaf of bread can run a home.. well my 'gas boiler' is about 20X as big & the coal power station down the road.. what's the 'cost' to us & the environment?
The thing that drove the computer market (to use your analogy) was/is the 'domestic market'
Sorry imo its just corporate conflicts of interests BS
ejbh3160 1 year ago
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@ejbh3160 "He says a box the size of a loaf of bread can run a home." That doesn't include the heat exchangers, pumps, control systems, mass flow controllers, power conditioning electronics, etc. That's only the size of the fuel cell stack, not everything it takes to make a nice system.
getsafe1212 1 year ago
I'll be 37 by the time i'll have the money to set up that guy's (in the video) deam of everything cheap. yupp i mean everything, food is the only problem. i only started making the engine.
funnypickels 1 year ago
@MadHatterTruth That's ignorant. There are many for profit companies producing fuel cell devices. Why is it stupid? Cause you don't understand how fuel cells work?
Think of it like a battery that is continuously fed fuel
getsafe1212 1 year ago
@MadHatterTruth That's ignorant. There are many for profit companies producing fuel cell devices. Why is it stupid? Cause you don't understand how fuel cells work?
Think of it like a battery that is continuously fed fuel
getsafe1212 1 year ago
I thought he was just bluffing, but wow. This actually works! Why haven't anyone else thought of this?
Charles2337 1 year ago
@Charles2337 The idea of fuel cells has been around since the 19th century. Solid oxide fuel cells (like what he's using) have been around for several decades. He's not done anything new, aside from being on 60 minutes with the idea. SOFC research occurs all over the globe
getsafe1212 1 year ago
@getsafe1212
I see. It's weird how I've never heard of this! I only heard of hydrogen fuel cells.
Charles2337 1 year ago
@Charles2337 Hopefully they'll be much more mainstream soon. There are prototype laptops that run for weeks, cell phones, large systems, and lots of other ideas. Motorola claimed a fuel cell phone would hit the market in 2010 as of last summer
getsafe1212 1 year ago
A decay peh.
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how about tonight ?
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ilkercant 1 year ago
I get that they would want to test it on facilities that use alot of electricity...but here is an idea why not get some test models in residential homes and try them out with the people who actually NEED to save money, and not the people who are rich already
Punisher1123 1 year ago
FUCK YOU CBS ...Comertials on youtube......stupid corporate pigs....YOU FAIL !
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put these things in cars..."natural gas tanks" + bloom energy + electric engine equals INDEPENDENCE FROM EXTERNAL POLITICALLY UNSTABLE REGIONS OF THE WORLD...should of been the first thing this company implemented.....the natural gas that goes to your home can become a gas station for your car....
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put these things in cars..."natural gas tanks" + bloom energy + electric engine equals INDEPENDENCE FROM EXTERNAL POLITICALLY UNSTABLE REGIONS OF THE WORLD...should of been the first thing this company implemented.....the natural gas that goes to your home can become a gas station for your car....
odinfury 1 year ago
The future's bright. Life is better for us than it was for people who lived 100 years ago. Life for people 100 years from now, should be better than ours. Of course, an asteroid strike , a super volcanic eruption etc... could change that.
neobootsonious 1 year ago
Don't get me wrong, I think the bloom box is cool and definitely is greener than many existing technologies that we have now. But don't we want to get away from 'fuel' power for the future? This guy wants to make one for $3,000 for each home he says. Wikipedia says it will last for 10 years. That's about $25 a month + fuel source. It can use various fuel sources, but fuel isn't a renewable energy source. It's still a finite resource, well more finite than say the sun's energy.
addiktion13 1 year ago
On the positive side he does say it can work with solar power, but they are mostly boasting natural gas as the main means for it. He does seem like he's gotten this tech down decent and I hope he can make it happen.
addiktion13 1 year ago
@addiktion13 Fuel cells need a fuel, such as a hydrocarbon or hydrogen. Her question was ill-prepared. If they had more time to talk, what he meant was, fuel cells can be ran in electrolysis, thereby storing energy which can be used later. You could use a fuel cell system to store energy when the sun isn't shining, but a fuel cell won't run on sunlight
getsafe1212 1 year ago
Shut up you old grouchy skeptic. The reason this hype is real is because they are focused on stationary power. Not cars! Fuel Cells best bet is in stationary power -because the energy storage is never a probem on a property, but is a problem with a small moving vehicle. This guy is on the right track. We could use a bloombox to convert hydrogen one day.
Gilmourist 1 year ago
i dont think that this is the best solution. there are people working with technologies far superior to this that are deemed illegal. some of these people end up missing. i do find it strange that arnold is there and that colin powell is on the board of directors or whatever. sounds like the government has finally found an energy solution that costs enough. what about free energy? and where is that natural gas coming from?
jjjankman 1 year ago
@jjjankman Read my bio. My solution will get 80-90% of the NG/fuel out of the average person's life for about 10k for a 20 kw system vs 140k for a bloom 20kw system. Mine runs on solar, bloom does not. Mine will run a car AND provide torque...bloom's will not. A GE combined cycle gets the SAME efficiency as a bloom box. Big deal... Not the solution... Again, read my bio.
seaplaneguy1 4 months ago
arnold had to arm wrestle with the poor guy
capitalisticbastard1 1 year ago
wtf commercial?
erdeigergo 2 years ago
If it works, it won't be a decade. More like 2 to 4 years I think. People can move *really* quick.
a1mint 2 years ago
probably not, the big power companys have more money than you can imagine, they have the power and funding and expencive lawyers to create masive delays... people with power usually go to great leanths to keep from loosing their power and these people are certanly no diffrent... they will never alow it to happen.
dirtTdude 2 years ago
@dirtTdude I don't buy these kinds of conspiracy theories. A completely independent set of people and investors would put their money up in a heartbeat if there is a good chance of payback. That's what business people do, they invest in risky ventures all the time. Much of the tech industry is made possible by that for instance.
I strongly urge people to think their conspiracy theories through, because it's not real.
a1mint 2 years ago
if you contend that these kinds of corporate policies 'conspiracy theories' do not exist you're just another sheeple with his head buried in the sand
dirtTdude 2 years ago
@dirtTdude You're suggesting that all corporations and all investors all are one big club, where they pass memos to each other, what to do and what not to do. It's all "controlled".
You're delusional.
a1mint 2 years ago
0:50 LOL man wanted to shake a hand, but look what happend :D
Aletzi1 2 years ago
Fuel cell is not a source of energy... It's an energy converter. Just that it does not produce other pollutants, but CO2... also, you need to feed it fossil fuel still..
tekbj 2 years ago
@tekbj no because you can use bio gas so you dont need fossil fuel ;)
Raptor41065Channel 2 years ago
Well you are right about using bio gas, but you need to clean the bio gas. And depending on the way you get the gas, it might not be sustainable (competition with food, and use of forest wastes).
tekbj 2 years ago
OTTERS?? like in the river? LOL 1:35
halcyon180 2 years ago
Silly tool.
Pro902 2 years ago
DONT SIGN UP FOR OTTERS YET PEOPLE!!!
halcyon180 2 years ago
WAIT!!!!! this thing needs natural gas! that means were a slave to fossil fuels again OH NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! they will get us at the pump and get us for electricity now too ITS A CONSPIRACY!!! LOL really tho, why the hell would i buy natural gas to create electricity, pay thousands of dollars to give the gas company billions, ok sounds like some one has thought of yet another milking scheme, not free energy
halcyon180 2 years ago
You got a better idea? Oh wait, no. Your just sitting behind a monitor trolling. Fail post is fail.
Pro902 2 years ago
yeah like electromagnetics maybe? its in the vacuum of space, its in magnets, you can harness this for electricity. Why the hell would i pay for gas to make electricity. You sound like an idiot
halcyon180 2 years ago
The energy has to come from somewhere. Gas contains energy, and apparently, running gas through a fuel cell produces electricity at a lower overall cost than buying it from the grid. Otherwise this business wouldn't work.
And magnets are not a source of energy.
a1mint 2 years ago
@a1mint The bloom costs 5-6cents for the fuel and 9 cents for the box for a total of 14-15 cents/kw-hr. PGE rapes people to up to 40 cent/kw-hr. 14 cents is at a fist 14 cents makes sense but not compared to what my solution....
seaplaneguy1 4 months ago
@seaplaneguy1 What's your solution?
a1mint 4 months ago
@a1mint My solution is my new engine, solar collection and energy storage. See my channel.
Our energy needs are mostly thermal and torque, NOT electrical. If you use LEDs, and low power PC, where total power for information is < 2% (DOE figure).... Lights, microwaves, and miscel. appliances can be less than 5-10%.
The rest is air movement, heat, cooling, process, torque (transit). A car is a moving house that keeps you warm or hot. Electricity cannot solve our energy needs.
seaplaneguy1 4 months ago
@seaplaneguy1 How do you propose you make torque energy? All energy has to come from another energy source. Don't you think that electricity is in there somewhere? Like how an electric motor can make torque, which obviously requires electricity. How do you propose to do that without electricity?
a1mint 4 months ago
@a1mint The engine is a torque device, just like a piston crank or turbo is a torque device. It is then connected to an electric generator if you want electricity or is used to torque a fan, wheel, or transform temperatures up or down. When you get the lighting right (LEDs, compacts...) and information low energy (laptops, Ipods) then electricity is only "needed" where is is required or about 5-10% of all energy. The rest is thermal (heating/cooling) and torque (movement). simple.
seaplaneguy1 4 months ago
@seaplaneguy1 What is the source of energy that your "torque device" uses?
a1mint 4 months ago
@a1mint Mine engine can run on an electric battery but it does NOT have an electric motor. At the shaft it is as efficient overall as an electric motor, but without the limitations of an electric motor. For example, the Gm Volt is 55-60% when ran on electricity only. Mine is the same, but you can get 40% useful heating/cooling where as the Volt cannot. Checkmate....
seaplaneguy1 4 months ago
@seaplaneguy1
Again, what is the source of energy that "your engine" uses?
As for electric motors can be 95+% efficient. That's only considering the motor, when it converts the electric energy on its input into motion.
a1mint 4 months ago
@a1mint Energy can be NG, gasoline, diesel, propane or solar, wind, or braking or inertia recovery.
Electric motors are only 95% in a very narrow range. A 120kw GM Volt motor may be less than 30% around town where the power required is 3-5 kw. In addition, during braking they are typically only 25% max, whereas mine is over 90%.
The Bloom box is NOT the answer in any way. It is very heavy, and so it an electric motor. My engine makes it obsolete....
seaplaneguy1 4 months ago
@seaplaneguy1 The efficiency problems in electrical vehicles is not the electric motor itself. it's highly unlikely that any industrial motor even exists that is only 30% efficient. It would mean that 70% of the electric energy is converted to heat. Highly highly unlikely. I agree that 95% is rather high and most practicaly motors are probably lower, but to try to sell a story how it's more often towards the 30% range, is just pure false information.
a1mint 4 months ago
@seaplaneguy1 The problem with electric vehicles is the storage of the energy. THERE I could easily agree that an electric vehicle overall, including the battery, that the efficiency isn't very high. How high and low I don't know, and if either of us makes any claim, you or I ought to back that up with a credible reference. Simply making claims with numbers doesn't convince anyone.
a1mint 4 months ago
@a1mint The GM Volt is 55-60% on the highway. From plug to bat .9, out of bat .9, through module .9. .9 x..9 x.9 = .729 Then at .9 for the motor you get 65%, but that is only at peak eff. An electric motor has a "BSFC" curve just like a piston engine does. A 110 kw GM electric motor at 5kw would be well below 50%. This is common. .73 x .5 = 36% peak around town. Bottom line is it is likely 25-60% city-highway efficient. Mine...60% at all time, does solar, 90% recovery...Checkmate
seaplaneguy1 4 months ago
@seaplaneguy1 Fuck off with the pathetic "checkmate" bull crap please. I'm not even necessarily disagreeing or agreeing here.
I told you, if you make claims, you need to back your claims with credible references, or otherwise anything you claim is completely meaningless here.
I'd like to see credible information that backs your claims and would like to consider it.
a1mint 4 months ago
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@seaplaneguy1 So, does "your" (which remains to be seen what "ownership" you have on it) motor use a fuel cell to convert a fuel to electricity? The long term future possibility is that we'll use hydrogen for energy storage and a fuel cell to convert to electricity that then drives an electric motor. Plenty of challenges to overcome to make this economical and safe.
a1mint 4 months ago
@a1mint So, does "your" (which remains to be seen what "ownership" you have on it) motor use a fuel cell to convert a fuel to electricity? The long term future possibility is that we'll use hydrogen for energy storage and a fuel cell to convert to electricity that then drives an electric motor. Plenty of challenges to overcome to make this economical and safe.
a1mint 4 months ago
The small box in his hand, claimed as powerful to supply a home, is not a device, but just the "wafers" of cells, piled up . The device for home use, for 3000 dollars, will have a final size of a home air condition machine.
jerryaltman 2 years ago
Anyway cool video and cool energy system, complimenti !!
Ciaoo.
Ubi.
UbiMorazzoni 2 years ago
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Yes nice, for pollution but nothing compared to Real FREE ENERGIES.
Future of this device:
"The Lords" will raise UP, the GAS PRICE ( Putin oriented ) and we will be at the start point...
At now, only Tesla or Pierluigi Ighina could tell us something really new..
Byebyeee
Ubi.
UbiMorazzoni 2 years ago
i thought it was cool,then i seen colin powell, then they lost me... and i agree with acerkiwi still fossil fuels...
JOEYtheBrenton 2 years ago
seriously we don't have 10 years!!! i don't see why they cant do it now..oh i know its because like everything, its all about money. fuck you cbs
Jangabar 2 years ago
your blaming cbs for this? there media not the creators you fucking piece of shit
pigballs911 2 years ago
YAWN, still using fossil fuel?
acerkiwi 2 years ago 2
I call bullshit on this thing.20 years ago ballard claimed in 10 years they would have hydrogen fuel cells and hydrogen powered cars.. well so much for that.This is a fake false flag unrealistic device that will eat up millions of investers dollars and never give a dime of profit back
deltapeco 2 years ago
Well... Wasn't the idea of hydrogen fuel cell cars always ridiculous? But put into the spotlight because of oil interests?
The electric car was killed because people would no longer be dependent on fueling stations. Where as, with hydrogen power, people would still need the oil companies.
The oil companies would simply re-tool their gas-stations to serve hydrogen.
JMfrac 2 years ago
i cant wait to buy some to grow weed,fuck da d.e.a.
bluntman305 2 years ago
This is the man with vision and idea, his life is his work that is why he say "it's my baby", i really admire this man. He can make it work, but im afraid that the doubters and looters will get to him. ( Ayn Rand)
PPL laough at Tesla when he said that in future ppl will talk from one end of the world to another with devices small as mach boxes.
long story short:
It is so hard to create but so easy to sit and spit on other ppls work and wish they dont be better then you and not to succede
danilo986 2 years ago 29
@danilo986 This is not his idea personally, people have been working on solid oxide fuel cells for decades before, all around the world. He's not even the first to produce commercially available units. But, he was the first to get on 60 minutes, so he's getting a ton of credit. Not that I'm against SOFCs, I just wish all the previous research received credit
getsafe1212 1 year ago
@danilo986 I agree amazing invention but pause for one sec and b4 we all clap like seals lets remember technolgieslike this, some better and some not have been supressed for decades swept under that super large carpet of big goverments and comglomerates for the purpose of lineing there pockets, the electro magnetic inventions dont even need sand, these ones spificly have been around and with held for 70 years, this is fact!
leanmachene 1 year ago
See , how a simple invention , can be stuck with development , when the right people don`t support it .
but you get Swarceneger , and Colin Powell and you are protected from assacination by the Fuel companies . (Coal , Gas , Oul , all of them ) i bet they whant to get rid of this dude now .
HK379 2 years ago 2
Wacko environmentalists will find something wrong with it.
neobootsonious 2 years ago 2
WTF ...A "64 cube" refridgerator size unit is already here for Ebay and Google..... But.... A "2 cube" unit for my home is still a decade away. His lips are flappin'.. yet he speaks nothing, my lord. LOL
roadmaxlimo 2 years ago 2
Your not so bright are you?
XXXOffroad 2 years ago
its my baby isn't she beautiful.
Djlucky227 2 years ago 2
FORMAL HAND SHAKE FAIL! 0:50
Must be great to invent good things.
DeRealUno 2 years ago 2
LMAO, I do not see any new technology inside.
hevei 2 years ago
I wonder what chemicals are laminated on the ceramic? What other bi products are released? In a traditional fuel cell you just get water. I also wonder how long these things will last?
TruxtonC 2 years ago
@TruxtonC Those are all questions needing answers, for sure.
The information is very vague.
ORCA4312 2 years ago
good idea but i want to know the flaws
sugercoatedvenom 2 years ago
Snake oil salesman
SlightyDisturbedNBK 2 years ago
Excellent news !!! Q: Does this innovation mean that we would still be tied to natural gas supply pipes? Would individual homes still have a monthly utility bill? I thought the goal was to foster true "off grid" freedom and self-contained renewable energy. The future is still bright. Thanks for sharing. Later, peace. 1.
fritzandaj 2 years ago
While this would still tie you to your local natural gas company it has the potential to be fueled by any vaporized hydrocarbon or pure hydrogen. Also the cost of a gas pipe is a lot less to maintain then a power line and prevents energy loss due to the resistance in power lines. The great part is even though it uses a fuel we could in there use other, more centralized power sources (solar, nuclear, wind ect) to make fuel and the pipe it to the home. greatly improving energy transfer ratio.
thegrif13 2 years ago
Good for Bloom Energy.
Looks very good.
Now, the Internet Silly People
will start their negative comments
that do nothing but discourage all sorts
of positive efforts
TownHallShouters 2 years ago 2
I'm skeptical
anonymoose222 2 years ago
There's all kinds of stuff out there. I wonder why CBS picked these guys?
bobfitz03 2 years ago
If works well!! This maybe for American New Energy Revolutionary in future. Hope for the BEST.
louielamson2000 2 years ago
How exciting! I can't wait to learn more!
gbrady3434 2 years ago
Money money money makes me funny in a dying world
2Roo7ted 2 years ago
"No burning" is not factual... The chemical reaction is "burning" and it still produces CO2. However, its still a great move in the right direction and could be supplied with biofuels in the future... Come on USA, we can win the Green energy race.
the43k 2 years ago
what they said was "No combustion" and while they produce the same particles (Water, CO2) this is not the same, this is a much more efficient technology as more of the energy released is turned to flowing electrons
thegrif13 2 years ago 2
I'm all for it,, For the record, the narrator says burning. I just don't want viewers to loose the fact that its still makes CO2. Its not carbon neutral just yet, unless you use biofuels.
the43k 2 years ago
Well it's 'bout damn time. Awesome shit! Can I get a whoa Bundy!?
coldplayISshit 2 years ago 3
Whoooooooa Bundy!
greasykiller 2 years ago
HOLY SMOKES!!!
fowlerlalex 2 years ago
the future
jamstran 2 years ago
first view
BuckTheLeopardGecko 2 years ago