Sunday, January 23, 2011

Budding new technology brings clean energy

Bloom Energy is changing the way the world thinks about energy. Today, most electricity is supplied over a network of cables stretching for kilometers from their source to reach the end user. Most often the power is generated by burning fossil fuels or any other method we can use to crank a turbine, be it nuclear fission or renewable energy. Bloom Energy plans to change all of that by commercializing fuel cells in a way that has never been accomplished.


In 2001 Dr. KR Sridhar and his colleagues at NASA had finished a research project which tested and developed fuel cell technologies that were to be used for missions to Mars. With every space mission, satellites and manned stations require power, which typically comes from solar panels or batteries. When Dr. Sridhar used the concepts for applications on Earth, Bloom Energy was born.


Although many experts are skeptical about the feasibility of the product for personal and commercial use, they are all agree that we need cleaner sources of energy. Find out more about Bloom Energy by visiting www.bloomenergy.com.


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