Planet 100: Bloom Box, Worth The Hype? (2/24)

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Silicon Valley's clean tech company, Bloom Box, officially launches today, Mexico city joins other cities in the bike sharing program and finally the Cuckoo Bee makes a rare appearance after 50 years. For more Planet 100 News, go to: http://planetgreen.discovery.com/videos/the-planet-100/

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  • fukin ads go away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Bloom Box info is incorrect. The $3000 box to power homes will be the size of a loaf of bread but it is not currently costing $800,000. That is the cost of the larger version that can power 100 homes but is being tested at corporate sites Fedex, Google, eBay. It is the size of a car.

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  • She just repeated the information from 60 Minutes.... and she didn't even repeat it correctly.

  • @tweaker1bms Yeah, the only advantage I see to this is maybe using it to power an electric vehicle. But the stacks are probably pretty fragile. And the output, from what I can tell, is better than your average fuel cell. The sand is just a porous material for the fuel to go through and is kinda misleading. The real breakthrough is the "paint" he uses. I'm pretty sure the one side is cobalt and the other is a nano scale palladium to take the place of platinum as the catalyst. 

  • @brokolay Oh... that's kinda lame... what's the resulting output? I'll stick to solar panels probably, they're made out of sand too :P

  • @tweaker1bms Natural gas and methane are preferred, but anything with a hydrogen base will do.

  • Oh wait I remembere it's compatible with tons of fuel sources.

  • Yes seen this on 60 minutes cool but what is the fuel?

  • @brokolay What's the fuel?

  • This is not a solution. It uses fuel. Duh. When everyone has one and is using the fuel, supply and demand rear their ugly heads and everyone is paying through the nose again for electricity. Plus it constantly uses a bunch of oxygen from the air. Like we didn't have enough problems with the atmosphere already. Sorry Bloom energy. Epic fail. Once the hype calms down people should come to their senses.

  • 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

  • @JHERGON87

    youtube makes money by the ads given on the left

    and official movie trailers!!!!!!!!!!

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