Bloom Box: 60 Minutes

Monday, February 22, 2010 by Anne
This is secretive fuel cell company Bloom Energy’s big week. After operating for 8 years and having reportedly raised around$400 million from investors, the company is officially launching the Bloom Box, and on Wednesday.

Kindof like an industrial-sized refrigerator, that sucks up oxygen on one side and fuel (natural gas, biomass, etc) on the other. Lesley Stahl, a 60 Minute’s reporter, takes a look at the “secret sauce” behind the Bloom Box. Bloom bakes sand and cuts it into little squares that are turned into a ceramic, which are then coated with green and black “inks.”

 Using a special process Bloom creates these ceramic discs and stacks them together interspersed with metal plates of “a cheap metal alloy.” The bigger the stack the more power the Bloom Box will create.

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