Here Is A Jaw-Dropping Piece Of Green Tech News: The Bloom Box

Lesley Stahl takes us inside Bloom Energy at CBS/60 Minutes. It's the most amazing thing, and CEO K.R. Sridhar is the most endeering energy entrepreneur you can imagine. But the Bloom Box is not just fantasy. It is installed and running at Google, Fedex, Wal-Mart, Staples and Ebay. It runs on fossil fuels, renewable fuels such as biogas, and on solar power. K.R. Sridhar, who is from India, tells Stahl that he want's to build home units that can run off the grid at $2,000 a pop. If that isn't enough to turn you on to this video, maybe nothing will...

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