On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:47:20 -0500, Ed Huntress wrote:

"F. George McDuffee" wrote in message
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FYI
http://www.dailytech.com/Is+the+Magi...ticle17752.htm
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So what is a Bloom Box exactly? Well, $700,000 to $800,000 will
buy you a "corporate sized" unit. Inside the box are a unique
kind of fuel cell consisting of ceramic disks coated with green
and black "inks". The inks somehow transform a stream of methane
(or other hydrocarbons) and oxygen into power, when the box heats
up to its operating temperature of 1,000 degrees Celsius.
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also
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/...n6231382.shtml
Unka George (George McDuffee)

I don't get the hype. It's a solid-oxide or a protonic ceramic fuel cell.
Maybe they have a way to cut costs or something, but the basic concept has
been around for decades. They can run on methane.

http://www.princeton.edu/~chm333/200...ls-types.shtml


Methane. Ri-iiight.

Does this mean that dairies will start adding an extra hose to each cow?
(Not a pretty picture, especially at this hour of the morning.)

Still, maybe I should be investing in cattle futures...


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