Its about time.....but....
xj4094dg
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Finally an energy company that is on the right path.
Bloom Energy is making a fuel cell that has all the big energy companies and all the **** politicians on their payroll/receiving campaign money freaking out.
I'm sure the ****-h@!e politicians will F this thing up somehow, but it sure is interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6DLyruTqHI
Bloom Energy is making a fuel cell that has all the big energy companies and all the **** politicians on their payroll/receiving campaign money freaking out.
I'm sure the ****-h@!e politicians will F this thing up somehow, but it sure is interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6DLyruTqHI
"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it." Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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The thing costs $800K and you still have to power it with natural gas or some other type of fuel supply. The only conventional thing about it is that it is more efficient than a typical combustion engine and has limited emissions.
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Um, the video is extremely uninformative and if it's generating power it's not a fuel cell technology.
If it uses natural gas like Huck344 says then yes, it is in a good direction for reducing oil dependence and pollution but it still relies on a finite resource
If anything, we should be doing work with handling nuke waste so we can find a better way to deal with it and then build more nuke plants. We should be pursuing hydrogen power for transportation because it's emission from the combustion process (rapid oxidation) is pure water.
Yet for some reason we ignore or fight over these technologies and pursue unsustainable energy sources like fossil fuels and biofuels or insufficient sources like wind, tidal and solar power. We can't get any more backwards.Expert Moron Extraordinaire
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Um, the video is extremely uninformative and if it's generating power it's not a fuel cell technology.
If it uses natural gas like Huck344 says then yes, it is in a good direction for reducing oil dependence and pollution but it still relies on a finite resource
If anything, we should be doing work with handling nuke waste so we can find a better way to deal with it and then build more nuke plants. We should be pursuing hydrogen power for transportation because it's emission from the combustion process (rapid oxidation) is pure water.
Yet for some reason we ignore or fight over these technologies and pursue unsustainable energy sources like fossil fuels and biofuels or insufficient sources like wind, tidal and solar power. We can't get any more backwards.
You're right, this video is not that detailed, find the 60 minutes piece on cNet, its commercial free and addresses most of what you talk about.
I like nuke too but would like to avoid if at all possible."The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it." Neil deGrasse Tyson.
