Bloom Energy co-founder K.R. Sridhar was featured on a national news show this weekend and was quoted in a statement today saying, We believe that we can have the same kind of impact on energy that the mobile phone had on communications. Just as cell phones circumvented landlines to proliferate telephony, Bloom Energy will enable the adoption of distributed power as a smarter, localized energy source...”
The idea behind these Bloom Boxes are safe, clean and cheap sources of energy. The boxes work by producing electricity through an electrochemical reaction. They run on several different types of fuels such as bio-fuels and natural gas making energy cheap.
Other benefits of these devices is to give companies the option of not relying on national grid networks as downtime is critical to most of the companies who are part of this testing phase.
The press conference was held at the San Jose, California offices of Internet company Ebay.
Source: Media Newswire