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Urban renewables: Adobe installs a dozen Bloom fuel cells

September 28, 2010 by Todd Woody
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photo: Edelman In The New York Times on Tuesday, I write about Adobe Systems putting a dozen Bloom Energy fuel cells on the roof of a parking garage at its downtown San Jose headquarters, the largest such installation in the United States: To green up its operations, Adobe Systems, the maker of the ubiquitous Flash media player, has... [read more]

A coming convergence in the energy sector?

March 3, 2010 by Tyler Hamilton
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I got my start in mainstream journalism as a technology and telecommunications reporter for the Globe and Mail, a beat I later took on at the Toronto Star and covered for six years before switching to energy. When I first started we were still using the term “information highway” to describe the coming convergence between the telephone... [read more]

A Day Late on the Bloom Box

March 1, 2010 by Robert Rapier
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I wasn't going to write anything on the Bloom Box, but people keep writing to ask what I think. My initial reactions were "What a lot of hype" and "I have seen this all before." I also wondered why it is that people keep falling for these kinds of stories. But fuel cells aren't my specialty, and as such I won't weigh in on the relative... [read more]

Bloom off the rose

March 1, 2010 by Michael Giberson
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After eight years in stealth mode, Bloom Energy had a big week in the media last week.  They opened up on 60 Minutes and picked up mentions everywhere from the New York Times to local newspapers to a zillion blogs (us included).  Much of the discussion was a bit over-excited.  At Green Chip Stocks, Chris Nelder noted that... [read more]

Fuel Cell Déjà Vu

February 25, 2010 by Geoffrey Styles
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A small start-up company just launched an amazing new product to much fanfare: a novel fuel cell device capable of running on natural gas and potentially small enough to fit in your basement and power your entire home, replacing the electricity you buy from the grid. That proposition looks so compelling that builders will start... [read more]

Where there be a Bloom boom?

February 24, 2010 by Todd Woody
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photo: Todd Woody In Wednesday’s New York Times, I have a story on Bloom Energy, which has revealed its fuel cell technology with much fanfare after remaining in stealth mode for eight years: SUNNYVALE, Calif. — A Silicon Valley company is claiming a breakthrough in a decades-old quest to develop fuel cells that can supply affordable... [read more]

Bloom Energy makes the news

February 24, 2010 by Michael Giberson
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Another Silicon Valley start-up out to solve the world’s energy problems, promising “clean, reliable, affordable energy anywhere.”  Sounds good, hope they can deliver. Today’s energy-problem-solver is Bloom Energy.  The company has been around since 2001, quietly developing what it claims is a new fuel-cell technology,... [read more]

The Economics of Bloom Energy's "Breakthrough" Fuel Cell

February 24, 2010 by Jesse Jenkins
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With all the hype today around the release of the "breakthrough" Bloom Energy fuel cell (which has become known as the "Bloom box" and is referred to by Bloom as an "Energy Server"), it's good to find a couple of posts looking at some real details: Todd Woody, writing for the NYTimes GreenInc blog, has some details on the design of the... [read more]

Bloom Energy CEO: We Can Be the Gas Station for Transportation

October 10, 2009 by Big Gav
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earth2tech has a post on CHP / cogeneration company Bloom Energy, following a recent interview with CEO KR Sridhar - Bloom Energy CEO: We Can Be the Gas Station for Transportation. I liked Sridhar's take on the company's mission - "We fundamentally want to change the world. This is a mission about changing the world because energy is a... [read more]

European homes to have $5,200 fuel cell by 2010: Acumentrics

March 31, 2008 by Tyler Hamilton
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Interesting story in the Boston Globe about Westwood, Mass.-based Acumentrics, a maker of solid-oxide fuel cells. The article states the the company is working with Italian heating products firm Merloni TermoSanitari to develop a commercial household version of its fuel cell, which would hit the European market by 2010 and cost around $... [read more]