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  1. Re:Why have backup generators? Or backups? by hawguy · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Wants To Nix Data Center Backup Generators

    I am quite sure that some readers will point out that xxxx is viable. My answer is "maybe" but what about running costs? Example. Say you decide to use natural gas (assuming deliverable, cheap and plentiful) . In principle great however why duplicate what is already provided via the customer electrical grid and even if you did you would have to maintain your power generating system which is not cheap.

    I believe the rationale is that if they have to provide XX megawatts of natural gas generating power anyway, and if they can generate power via natural gas more cheaply than they can buy it from the grid, then why not use natural gas as primary power and the grid as secondary?

    It's not likely that they are running traditional gensets, but something like the Bloom Box fuel cell (as mentioned in the summary) which has no (or few) moving or consumable parts and is cheaper to operate than a traditional genset.

  2. Re:Bloom Boxes? by Leebert · · Score: 1 · on Google Details and Defends Its Use of Electricity

    I was curious what a Bloom Box is. So I looked it up. From http://www.bloomenergy.com/products/:

    "Each Bloom Energy Server provides 100kW of power, enough to meet the baseload needs of 100 average homes or a small office building... day and night, in roughly the footprint of a standard parking space. For more power simply add more energy servers."

    100kW for 100 average homes? What exactly are they smoking? You can't even run a hair dryer in all 100 homes for that.

  3. Bloom Boxes? by LifesABeach · · Score: 1 · on Google Details and Defends Its Use of Electricity

    Doesn't Google use Bloom Boxes? And my personal vex with Bloom Energy is that they don't make a small business version, (cue Sour Grapes Face).

  4. Re:Bloom cells seem like a much better idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars

    http://www.bloomenergy.com/products/

    Fuel cells made out of sand.

    Sand AND natural gas, you mean. Not really the same thing as is being discussed here - the point is that the thorium system is self-contained (NO inputs once set up). The Bloom cell still requires a hydrocarbon fuel input which is *consumed*...

  5. Re:Bloom cells seem like a much better idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars

    http://www.bloomenergy.com/products/

    Fuel cells made out of sand.

    Fuel cells that still run on fossil fuels. Fail.

  6. Bloom cells seem like a much better idea by Compaqt · · Score: 2 · on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars

    http://www.bloomenergy.com/products/

    Fuel cells made out of sand.