gagan007
Uhu, Not Gonna Happen!
I have been following the invent of the BloomBox ever since it became in public light around a year ago. It was promising then and everyone believed in its potential to bring about the drastic change in the current energy scenario. Millions of dollars have been invested by many venture capitalists of Silicon Valley and many big organizations have been said to implement the solution provided by the company (Bloomenergy) but nothing solid has been yet released for the public.
Some people have gone to the extent and said that K.R. Sridhar has earned a lot of mileage from media which none else has ever been able to do so (in the field of alternate source of energy). Well there are always some who oppose those who have a vision to change the future but unfortunately I also doubt whether it will be able to make any mark. Many have made comparisons of this technology with Segway (the self-balanced electric vehicle) which was introduced in 2001 and is now nowhere to be seen (except some movies). People had said that Segway will also change the face of personal transportation but from all over it has received none but restrictions.
According to Wikipedia and the Bloomenergy they already have few customers who are using their technology to power their offices.
This is nice to hear but unless the technology is brought down to be used by the general public will it really make that difference? The cost of a 100kW bloombox server is around $700,000 to $800,000 while for an average home the normal usage is 5kW. This brings the cost to roughly INR 15lacs which is not joke.
Apart from this the running cost of the bloombox is not cheap either; it needs natural gas and water as fuel. Even if this technology is implemented everywhere fossil fuel (natural gas) will still get consumed (but it still remains clean/green). So I do not think that it misses its mark due to this reason too.
More about it here:
*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_Energy_Server
*www.bloomenergy.com/products/
*articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-02-23/india/28131959_1_grid-electricity-disks
Some people have gone to the extent and said that K.R. Sridhar has earned a lot of mileage from media which none else has ever been able to do so (in the field of alternate source of energy). Well there are always some who oppose those who have a vision to change the future but unfortunately I also doubt whether it will be able to make any mark. Many have made comparisons of this technology with Segway (the self-balanced electric vehicle) which was introduced in 2001 and is now nowhere to be seen (except some movies). People had said that Segway will also change the face of personal transportation but from all over it has received none but restrictions.
According to Wikipedia and the Bloomenergy they already have few customers who are using their technology to power their offices.
This is nice to hear but unless the technology is brought down to be used by the general public will it really make that difference? The cost of a 100kW bloombox server is around $700,000 to $800,000 while for an average home the normal usage is 5kW. This brings the cost to roughly INR 15lacs which is not joke.
Apart from this the running cost of the bloombox is not cheap either; it needs natural gas and water as fuel. Even if this technology is implemented everywhere fossil fuel (natural gas) will still get consumed (but it still remains clean/green). So I do not think that it misses its mark due to this reason too.
More about it here:
*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_Energy_Server
*www.bloomenergy.com/products/
*articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-02-23/india/28131959_1_grid-electricity-disks