Bloom prides itself on three main objectives of their fuel cell technology. They are fuel flexibility, affordability, and reversibility. The Bloom Box has the option of flexibility where multiple fuels can be used. Ideally a clean fuel like ethanol or biodiesel would be used. It is considered affordable because of their use of sand as their main material to create clean energy. Additionally with the option to use multiple fuels, the consumer is able to buy the most economical fuel at any given time. Finally the fuel cell is considered reversible because of its ability to supply power in a fuel cell mode as well as to produce metabolic oxygen and a hydrocarbon fuel reserve in an electrolysis mode. The regenerative fuel cell supplies power to the building in a fuel cell mode as well as waste heat in the fuel cell and electrolysis modes.

Overall the Bloom Box is being considered for home energy of the future because with a solar panel and a bloom energy server it would provide consumers with a sufficient amount of electricity at both day and night with the additional option to charge a car. In other words it has the capacity to generate clean energy twenty-four hours a day, three hundred sixty five days a year. Additionally, unlike other clean energies like solar power that needs great amounts of sunlight to produce electricity or wind turbines that ideally need to be placed in windy locations, the Bloom Box can be installed practically anywhere in the world. It is also twice as efficient as the grid, which means it can produce two times more electricity with the same amount of fuel that is used for the grid. Therefore, there would be no need for the grid or for a fuel infrastructure. However, this is a goal for the future, as the company believes it will take at least a decade to perfect the technology.

 

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