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From: E_K_S	2/22/2010 4:10:49 PM
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Bloom Energy's "BLOOM BOX" - Will this be Google's first product for their new Energy Division? With GOOGLE recently acquiring the right to sell power as a power company, I think Google is planning on selling bloom boxes . . . . The Bloom Box: a power plant for the home (video) engadget.com From the article:"...There are already several corporate customers using refrigerator-sized Bloom Boxes. The corporate-sized cells cost $700,000 to $800,000 and are installed at 20 customers you've already heard of including FedEx and Wal-mart -- Google was first to this green energy party, using its Bloom Boxes to power a data center for the last 18 months. Ebay has installed its boxes on the front lawn of its San Jose location. It estimates to receive almost 15% of its energy needs from Bloom, saving about $100,000 since installing its five boxes 9 months ago -- an estimate we assume doesn't factor in the millions Ebay paid for the boxes themselves. Bloom makes about one box a day at the moment and believes that within 5 to 10 years it can drive down the cost to about $3,000 to make it suitable for home use...." Bloom Energy Unveils Its Ultra-Secretive Bloom Box Fuel Cell BY Ariel SchwartzSun Feb 21, 2010 fastcompany.com From the article:"...The box consists of a stack of ceramic disks coated with green and black "inks." The disks are separated by cheap metal alloy plates. Methane (or other hydrocarbons) and oxygen are fed in, the whole thing is heated up to 1,000 degrees Celsius, and electricity comes out. Bloom estimates that a box filled with 64 ceramic disks can produce enough juice to power a Starbucks....". EKS

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