Will the Energy Industry kill the Bloom Box?

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Guessing they will drop in price
fuel will go up

plus there's less pollution/green movement/cap and trade
 
Yep, it's too late. The cats out of the bag and it's already being used by google and walmart, two of the best endorsements anyone could ask for
 
Controlled catalytic oxidation is more efficient than open combustion, but it's still consuming fuel. They were talking like it's "free energy", which it isn't. You get a Bloom Box and you still have to pipe in or transport fuel into the box. From what I've seen, it's also not as tree-hugging carbon neutral as they'd like you to think.
 
Replacing the need for one grid solution with the need for another isn't going to help much.


Understatement of the
 
If the units are only powering a data center, they're not going to be subject to the grid losses and demand changes that a grid-source power plant would be. Apples to oranges, IMO.
 
Riiiight... assuming nothing wears out or breaks.
The payback on solar is about the same- about 25 years. Payback is typically faster with wind (as long as you're in a good location) but they have more moving parts, so are more subject to failure. You can have an energy solution with a 25 year break-even RIGHT NOW with existing technology.
 
You seem to think that corporations control what the public desires. That is not the case. There are innovators out there always trying to see what it is the public wants next . Unfortunately, it's the consumers that killed the electric car, because to them it just didn't make sense to spend a lot of money for something that worked less efficiently. We don't yet have the infrastructure nor the technology to give the consumers what they want/need for electric vehicles.

Think about it...who wants to plug their car in every night or know they can only travel 100 miles before their car dies? Who wants to rennovate their home for electrical plugs or try to find the 1 or 2 public charging stations in their state? None of it makes sense.

If there was enough public demand for something, I promise you, every company out there will be tapping into that technology to make a profit from it. Companies are (theoretically) out to make a profit, not to make the public use something they don't want.
 
Then get rid of the grid based system... isn't that the ultimate point? Air conditioning doesn't travel through a grid into everyone's home neither does hot water, why should electricity when it can be efficiently generated on site?
 
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