Re: The Bloom Box
This is an encouraging development, but there's a lot of hype, too. Fuel cells have been around a while. I think there's a good market for something that can take natural gas and turn it into electricity in small units. They still emit CO2, though - 773 lbs./MW-hr. This is better than a normal natural gas power plant, which emits about 1135 lbs./MW-hr. And of course, if you're using localized cell generators, you aren't losing the energy normally lost to long transmission lines.
They don't seem to be selling single-home sizes just yet. Wonder how much one would cost.