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did anyone catch teh 60 minutes of this. its like some silicon wafers spread with some green and black goop on both sides, and supposedly converts any kind of energy source into efficient energy. i guess it like a really efficient fuel cell.

there ipo is tommorow. im not sure what to think, it sort of reminds me of these gas additives that promise increased gas mileage.
 
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The guy said about 700 million dollars of VC money into it, and the test runs they are doing with Ebay, Google, etc cost about 600G's and they save about 8K a month. They also said that they are trying to get a home set up to cost around 3-4 grand. They are way out of their league.

Someone is going to compete with a more cost effective solution with minimal investment backers so they can sell for much cheaper. They are just waiting for people to start paying attention to the concept and then the small company is going to shit all over Bloom.

That's my guess.
 
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I saw that this morning, and according to some eco geeks, it's not the BEST they have seen. So this so called "energy box" is like a solar panel that provides juice for Goolgle? WOW....Can't wait to hear what they have in store for "shit boxes" .
 
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yea, i was looking at some articles googling bout this, cuz maybe there is some investing on my part, but from what im getting is usually the cost is 13-15 cents per Kwh, but witht his bloom box they were saying it would reduce the enrgy cost to 6-9 cents per Kwh or some shit like that.

i dont know, i mean its a third of a reduction in energy cost, maybe.

so if you save 8k a month, and the box cost 800k. it will take 100 months to break even. or even less months if you can get tax breaks and some kind of subsidize from teh govt in the form of rebates and shit.

so i guess you can brak even between i dont know 5-8 years.

and who knows if this shit breaks down. the inventor was saying that the problem they had recently was witht eh air filter, and all they did was flip the box upside down, so that the oxygen would come thru on the other end.

but i wonder what other problems they have witht his box. i think it would be better to what for version 2.0 next generation bloom box.

by the wya they havent even filed the ipo. jsut announcing that they are open for business.

im still doing research on it, so i dont know, im a lil iffy on it still.

the inventor said before he reversed engineered the box into the bloom box - it originally was to be used to terraform mars and it was to be used to produce oxygen on mars. damn, taht is kinda cool thinking about teraforming other planets to make them habitable for humans. kinda liek the ending to total recall.