Innovation: Bloom didn’t start a fuel-cell revolution

Innovation: Bloom didn’t start a fuel-cell revolution – tech – 26 February 2010 – New Scientist

The world woke up to an energy revolution this week thanks to the Governator-backed launch of Bloom Energy, a firm based in Sunnyvale, California, whose fuel cells rapidly gained huge publicity and created much excitement.

But that revolution is not one coming just from the so-called “Bloom boxes”, which already have high-profile customers like eBay and Google.

It’s one already being put into action by a suite of less-celebrated and more established competitors to the new company. Indeed fuel cells much like Bloom’s are already set to be installed in thousands of homes this year.

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