In need of energy for your building? Just put a fuel cell into your backyard! California based company Bloom Energy developed a new class of distributed power generators, based on patented solid oxide fuel cell technology.Each Bloom Energy Server provides 100kW of power, enough to meet the baseload needs of 100 average homes or a small office building… day and night, in roughly the footprint of a standard parking space. For more power simply add more energy servers.
Fuel cells are devices that convert fuel into electricity through a clean electro-chemical process rather than dirty combustion. They are like batteries except that they always run.
Bloom Energy´s particular type of fuel cell technology is different than legacy “hydrogen” fuel cells in four main ways:
- Low cost materials – Bloom Energy system cells use a common sand-like powder instead of precious metals like platinum or corrosive materials like acids.
- High electrical efficiency – the system can convert fuel into electricity at nearly twice the rate of some legacy technologies
- Fuel flexibility – the systems are capable of using either renewable or fossil fuels
- Reversible – the technology is capable of both energy generation and storage
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