{"id":611,"date":"2010-02-24T12:07:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/?p=611"},"modified":"2016-01-02T14:44:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T19:44:28","slug":"bloom-energy-be-the-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/archives\/611","title":{"rendered":"Bloom Energy: Be the Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI read with fascination this morning on Gizmag<\/a> about a 60 Minutes episode that aired this week about the Bloom Energy system. Set to be unveiled later today, the Bloom Box has the potential to be a game-changing device for energy. It is a fuel cell which does not rely on precious metals (built from ceramics) and it runs on ethanol that could be manufactured from switchgrass or waste. It does emit a small amount of CO2 but it also by-produces hydrogen which gives the machine a double capacity for power since the hydrogen can then be used to fuel cars, etc. with no CO2 emissions.<\/p>\n

I can see land art wind and\/or solar power sculptures placed delicately above fields of switchgrass planted to power the bloom boxes of the world. On the perimeter are beautifully designed carbon-sequester-to-fuel<\/a> devices that, combined with the capacity of the grass, will offset the bloom box CO2 emission. Switchgrass roofs top all the buildings of the city with SNAP<\/a> installations between them.<\/p>\n

But perhaps this is all a bit premature and I’m not sure that the CO2 created by a world powered significantly by Bloom Boxes would be able to be offset. In any event, they would not be allowed as a part of a submission to the Land Art Generator Initiative design competition since they do put off CO2. But they could be a very nice transitional technology and they may be able to help put the brakes on the momentum that the nuclear industry has been getting lately…<\/p>\n

Link<\/a> to the original 60 Minutes episode.
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\nTwo 100-kilowatt Bloom Energy Servers at a site in California. (via New York Times<\/a>, via Bloom Energy)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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