Fuel Cell Power

The Bloom Box is a solid oxide fuel cell made by Bloom Energy, which generates energy using only oxygen and natural gases. The founder and CEO of the Bloom Box, KR Sridhar, along with his team developed this idea by reversing a similar idea they were working on with NASA that used solar panels to electrolyze Carbon Dioxide, which would essential produce oxygen and fuel on Mars. The Bloom Box uses thin white ceramic plates, which are claimed to be made from “beach sand”. Each ceramic plate is coated with Bloom’s signature black ink on one side (which acts as the cathode) and green ink on the other side (the anode). Oxygen enters the cathode side, while natural gas enters the anode side, and the two gases combine to produce energy. One 10×10cm paper-thin square can power a lightbulb; and these squares can be stacked thousands of times to create “a powerplant in a box”. Several industrial-sized Bloom Boxes have been deployed in California for a number of corporations like eBay, Google, Wal-Mart and come with a price tag of $800000. EBay has already released a statement claiming they have saved over $100000 in fuel costs over a nine-month trial period. Bloom’s goal is a $3000 box no larger than a small loaf of bread, which can eventually be used in any residential home.

www.hydrowaterpower.com www.hydrowaterpower.com by Eugene Mallove Stanley A. Meyer, the controversial Ohio inventor who had claimed his technology could produce a hydrogen-oxygen mixture with a minimal energy input (compared with conventional electrolysis) died on March 21, 1998. He had gained a world-wide following of adherents and people who had invested in his activities — Water Fuel Cell (Grove City, OH). He was famous for his claimed “water fueled car” which was exhibited symbolically in the BBC/CBC 1994 documentary on cold fusion, “Too Close to the Sun”. There were also those who were initially curious about Meyer’s work, such as the editor of this magazine, the late Christopher Tinsley of the UK, and the late Admiral of the British Navy, Sir Anthony Griffin, but who became frustrated by being unable — or, more to the point, not allowed — to confirm (or reject finally) Meyer’s claims. I have absolutely NO DOUBT today that Stanley Meyer was his own worst enemy. IF — and a very big IF — he had discovered the technological process that he had said he had, there is no way that a reasonable, straightforward marketing strategy would have failed to make his technology quickly spread worldwide. He could have become very influential and very rich. There remains a very strong suspicion that he had no such process, even though he conducted a demonstration (before this writer and another engineer at the Meyer lab in 1993) of the production of copious hydrogen/oxygen …