A Peek Inside the Bloom Box

In the world of energy, the Holy Grail is a power source that's inexpensive and clean. Lesley Stahl gets an inside look at one inventor's "energy machine." 60 Minutes, Sunday, Feb. 21, 7 p.m. ET/PT.

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[fleckx]

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.

[714greg]

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.

[awcoman]

31 second commercial for a 1:23 video? Boo.  hiss. cbs=old media.

[Saebeck32]

60 mintues, please do a follow up story on the Bloom Box soon!!

[wildone106]

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!!!!!!?!

[fitshuck]

@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......

[willpower101]

@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....

[solarpanels3]

1$ and dropping very fast

[solarpanels3]

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

Cost per watt under a $1

[mad7sree]

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[ISMOPANAMA]

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.???

[ISMOPANAMA]

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.