http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/ Engadget Comments for The Bloom Box: a power plant for the home (video) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 22nd 2010 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 22nd 2010 2:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/
You mean, shitly awesome.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 2:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/google-gains-clearance-to-buy-and-sell-energy-continue-taking-o/]]>Feb 22nd 2010 3:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Shit is right.
I'm completely ignoring the fact that me and many others are exploiting this thread just to get a greater visibility.
common Engadget, implement a better system.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 3:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/
"We can use solar" fuel? How can a fuel cell take "solar" as a fluidic fuel? Are they planning to bottle sunlight and pump it in?

This is a fuel cell, much like any other, that uses cheaper materials to create it, so that's why it's good. It appears to have many of the disadvantages of normal generators, i.e. they require hydrocarbon fuels and will release C02. The main differences seem to be reduced size, reduced weight, increased efficiency, reduced noise and reduced cost of manufacture. It does not, however present a greener way of generating electricity than those already available.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 5:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/
The tech is very cool and can be used for many things like in many other vehicals like boats and planes. It can be used in emergencies like in hati.

If they can get it down to $3000 to power a home or any other things we can think of, then it would be worth getting.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 5:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/
thats no fridge it's a power station!!!]]>Feb 22nd 2010 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 22nd 2010 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 22nd 2010 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/
hey! I sent this story in! u better not say it's shit!]]>Feb 22nd 2010 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/
I was wondering this same thing... the fuel cell produces electricity from a source. Hell I can create a device that takes electricity and converts it into electricity. It's called a wire.
]]>Feb 22nd 2010 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/
Well, if you look at its increased efficiency, it must be "greener."

No?]]>Feb 22nd 2010 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/True, it's greener if it releases less CO2 per KW generated than other similarly fueled generators. However as a method, it's not as green as, say, wind power.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://bit.ly/fastest-internet-connection-on-earth-future]]>Feb 22nd 2010 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 22nd 2010 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/
That's the maddest thing I've seen in ages, if it works it could change the course of human history, cheap clean energy for all :O]]>Feb 22nd 2010 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/The name is shit... Bloom... BOX
I would call it the " iBOX" ]]>Feb 22nd 2010 10:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/OK, when I see him holding the BOX i get a flashback from the LOTR the scene were the Gollum holds the ring saying "My Precious". XD]]>Feb 22nd 2010 10:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 22nd 2010 11:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 23rd 2010 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 23rd 2010 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 23rd 2010 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/wind_energys_ghosts_1.html

]]>Feb 23rd 2010 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 24th 2010 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/
Re-read/listen. If used in conjunction with biofuels it makes it carbon neutral; so cheaper, smaller, more efficient, and carbon neutral = greener than current options.

Also, wind is good, but this is smaller, probably cheaper, and can still be carbon neutral.. ]]>Feb 25th 2010 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/
The production of Biochar also results in a biofuel that could be used. In that case the whole process would be much greener, most likely carbon negative. ]]>Feb 25th 2010 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 28th 2010 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/If you listen carefully you will hear that it was originally developed to work with CO2 and outputted oxygen. They can still use that process here on earth but CO2 is not in as much of an abundance in the air as O2 is.]]>Mar 25th 2010 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 22nd 2010 2:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Gas is already coming in for your furnace isn't it? At least at my home it is. Or to heat the water. Just reroute a part to the Bloombox.

I'm quite interested by this technology. I'm not as skeptical as the guy in the video who said it would be a GE box, but I'm not entirely convinced just yet either. Hope to hear and see more on this company soon.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Natural Gas is probably the easiest to get, since a large portion of American homes have Natural Gas. And it would use 50% less Natural Gas then a Natural Gas powerplant to create the same energy.

It isn't the holy grail he is making it out to be, since it does still require fuel. A holy grail would be Solar technology that is affordable and effective enough and batteries that are effective enough to store that energy when the sun isn't out. Even now though, customer studies have shown that in Rochester, NY solar panels are still ecnomical in the long term even though it would take close to a decade to break even if not more and the high initial investment of about $20K.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 2:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 22nd 2010 2:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 22nd 2010 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 22nd 2010 3:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 22nd 2010 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 22nd 2010 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Hank Hill will be very happy with this, since you can power it with propane. Just think of all the propane & propane accessories that will be needed.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/
Basically 99.9999999999% of fuel cells in use today get their hydrocarbon from conventional sources (and when it's hydrogen instead of hydrocarbon, the hydrogen is made from hydrocarbon, from conventional sources).]]>Feb 22nd 2010 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 22nd 2010 2:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 22nd 2010 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 22nd 2010 2:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 22nd 2010 3:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/]]>Feb 22nd 2010 4:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/I still cannot whether they particles or waves.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 5:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/
Actually it does not burn anything. It is a chemical process separating protons and electrons. There is no combustion.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 5:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 22nd 2010 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/
Carbon stupid. Use solar energy to create electricity to break water and then use that to create electricity? What the hell is the point? Hydrogen is an awful energy storage mechanism.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 22nd 2010 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/Feb 22nd 2010 1:42PM