"K.R. Sridhar, founder of the Silicon Valley clean tech start-up Bloom Energy, says he’d like to see his company’s Bloom Box fuel cell technology lighting up most American households within the next 10 years.
biomanbaba, I would love to see anything work that would delay or even eliminate Peak Oil, but I don't think this will be the case. We have to see how Bloom Energy works out over the next 10 years, before we can assess its potential success.
I agree with the closing paragraph in the above link:
"Pernick says he's encouraged by the silicon technology that Bloom is using to make its fuel cells, but still has many questions. And, he says, "there’s no one technology that’s going to change everything in electricity. These transitions take decades, not years.”
60 Minutes has a past history of feeding information to the American public that assures them that all is well with its energy future. Review this clip about "The Alberta Oil Sands."
The above clip basically assures us that the USA has nothing to worry about on the energy front for the next 100 years. I'm not buying this scenario.
And the Chinese are interested in this oil from the tar sands; Americans assume that we already own this oil, so we can keep our happy motoring habit alive. Canada has NAFTA obligations to the US to provide us with oil, but the tar sands is a mining operation using much natural gas and water, natural resources that are not unlimited. What works today may not work tomorrow.
Returning to the Bloom Box. There is a lot of optimism with this venture, but a lot of energy and natural resources are needed for this project. Unfortunately, most natural resources are in decline. Plus the infrastructure and retro fitting thousands of buildings would be an enormous project for a country that is now broke.
HowardHughs on this board has always supported the idea that conservation is the best approach to begin to solve our energy problems. He and others are correct about this perspective. We all have an obligation to reduce our carbon footprint. The latter would be a good topic to be presented by 60 Minutes to the American public, but you will not see this happen, until gas prices panic the American public and shock our economy, in my opinion.
I would like to see Matt Simmons and Robert L. Hirsch present their opinions on the Bloom Box. They are best qualified to assess its future.
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