Bloom Energy ™, a company based in Silicon Valley, has been working on a project it calls the Bloom Box for over eight years. The project is intended to revolutionize how we look at electricity in the present day by making each household self sufficient in its energy requirements. At present the scale of the Bloom boxes that Bloom Energy is manufacturing is too large to attract the residential market but within the next ten years Bloom Energy expects to cater to households with boxes of a similar nature scaled down to much smaller outputs.
Bloom Energy is going to hold a press conference on Wednesday to release details about the box to the public. The countdown has begun and can be seen on the Bloom Energy website for those eager to catch the conference as soon as it is aired.
The Box in production by Bloom Energy is claimed to be silent, vibration-free and completely odorless. It is powered by a fuel tank which sits adjacent to it and can be filled by any hydrocarbon. Hydrocarbons are chains of Carbon-Hydrogen links which may be broken up or linked together for longer chains to produce different fuels such as ethane, methane, butane and octane, octane being the one used most frequently apart from methane which is used as natural gas.
Within the Bloom Box there lies a stack of fuel cells – revolving around the same basic technology which in use right now by other solar panels. The stack can be disassembled and laid out to a unit of varying sizes depending on the requirements of the user. The box, Bloom Energy claims, will cut emissions by sixty percent and also generate heat which may be used for any purpose by those using the box.
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