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End to All Power Problems

Has anyone heard of Bloom Energy? It's a new technology that many tech companies are now using to generate power off of the grid.

It takes methane (or another similar fuel) and uses fuel cells to chemically convert fuel to power. Check out the 60 minutes segment on it, pretty amazing. I think it could be a huge paradigm type shift for the entire country.

It actually works, and they are hoping to be able to get the cost down to $3000 per house. No more power bill, only a gas bill, and we have tripled our Natural Gas reserves in the country since 2007. Fewer power plants, many fewer transmission wires, less oil........

Oh yeah, and most importantly, clean power to your audio gear.
macdadtexas
chadnliz
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4est I can rest easy knowing I would win a contest of footprints anyday over most any of the hypocrits who scorn others while ignorant of their own lifestyle.
Didnt hear a word from Al in months, not during elections or anything............looks like somebody convinced him he is a fool and should stand down and SHUT UP. Cheers
danlib1
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Al's busy fending off Tippers lawyers right now. And Im with Macdadtexas- I hope this technology takes off as well.
chadnliz
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I hope it does too but not because I think a Polar bear will hug me in a commercial. If they would just say its better to clean things up instead of selling flawed and feloniously squewed science maybe they would actually get somewhere.
Climate change is more a cycle than anything else and the far left needs to come to terms with it, once that happens real progress can be had and many MANY more will participate.
markus1299
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This is exciting stuff. Check out the vid.
I would bet at some point in time, big oil will have a problem with this.
macdadtexas OP
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Big Oil will be behind this like you wouldn't believe. Big oil also is big natural gas, and domestically. It would be the biggest profit making venture of all time. Now IPP's (independent power producers) and large regulated power companies (FPL, Southern Co, TVA, WPS, AEP), now they will have problems with this.
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