Last night on 60 Minutes Leslie Stahl reported on a new technology game-changer in the green energy field. It’s called the Bloom Box and is produced by Bloom Energy and is spearheaded by a rocket engineer who worked with NASA on a previous Mars mission plan that ended up getting scrapped. K.R. Sridhar, a scientist from India, has developed what he claims is a unique type of fuel cell that can use oxygen, natural gas and other cheap fuel alternatives to create wireless electrical power. Yes, you read that right – wireless.
I have to admit that I’ve been investigating alternative energy sources for over a decade myself and have seen many quacks out there trying to pawn off some phony piece of crap to an unsuspecting base of “investors” (aka common folks they wanted to rip off). However, this time around it is different. Sridhar has managed to get his investment capital from none other than John Doerr from Kleiner Perkins. Doerr has some very significant successes under his belt when it comes to picking the right companies to invest in, from Amazon to Google. All of his picks haven’t been successes, but his track record and the fact that they gave an initial $100 million (plus) in capital to Bloom Energy was enough to make me sit up and pay attention.
I guess the real clincher to me was when I found out they already have big name companies testing the product in a real business environment. The companies first customer? Google. Need I say more? The Bloom Energy website says that they are launching this Wednesday. I don’t know what that means, but I do know this … if they have an IPO anytime soon, you can count me in. I’m sold.
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