Bloom box tank facing the fuel cell power generation reliability, cost challenges
Small size, can be fully powered, box Bloom claims should no longer rely on traditional power, the price to about $ 3,000 U.S..
Bloom Energy located in California, held a press conference Grand publish the size of a refrigerator box fuel cells Bloom. Celebrities attending the conference,Inspiron 510m battery , including California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (Arnold Schwarzenegger), former U. S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (Colin Powell), venture capital legend John Doerr, co-founder Larry Page of Google, and eBay, Wal-Mart, FedEx and other important business Executives.
Bloom box a mixture of oxygen and fuel to produce a chemical reaction to produce electricity. The product claims to spend a little space can produce large amounts of electricity, helping people to change the use of traditional power grids, while a family unit to use less than 3,000 U.S. dollars, is now used in Google, eBay and Wal-Mart, among others.
Bloom Energy CEO KR Sridhar at the press conference to be the most important commitment is the product available in the smallest unit of 25 watts, extending to 1 kW “house” solution, or even hundreds of kilowatts of power output systems for the power company or a community.
A fundamental challenge is the reliability of the porcelain. Mobile Fuel Cells Technologies Ardic co-founder of Tobin Fisher said: “It is very thin, and can operate over a wide temperature range. The big challenge is the heat stress. Sony VGP-BPS10A/B , All these different elements to heat up and move at different rates. In the long term, so they may split. ”
Fisher said that generally when the type of system failure Bloom may lead to the phenomenon of the so-called short of gas, heating and rapid failure. He estimated that these energy companies Bloom for their technical skills have conducted a test of long-term stress, trying to find problems and solve them. Bloom was created in 2001, and went through eight years in a number of companies with very limited product.
Bloom for the failure of the system is also very concise approach. Sridhar said: “We have a module with the technology of heat exchange, structure redundant.” Like the design of high-end servers can ensure that a component failure, the whole system can still maintain their function.
Sridhar said: “If the data center have a server fails, the data center would not cease to function. Tecra A6 battery , If one box Bloom () must be repaired, the customer will not power “. The official name of this product is indeed servers Bloom Energy.
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