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• On the subject of Innovation - did you see 60 minutes last Sunday about Bloom Energy?
  • lots of fluff, and not a lot of good info
    • remember the carburetors that ran on water?
      • oops... ignore the pic.
      • Saw pics of commercial units in operation on the teevee today.
        • $800K?!? Guess dilithium crystals are still pretty expensive!
          • Gotta travel to get'em.
            • And, you need one of those expensive Warp Drives
          • in any case
            • "..even the very liquid gasoline, is a bad idea.."
              • need a ghostly medium
                • Is gasoline more dangerous than propane?
                  • bloom and boom
                    • AC - I would agree that Propane on boats can be very dangerous.
                      • propane
                • Heavy sigh.
            • AC - I'm not sure what you are saying about 1000 celsius
              • in some press release
                • links to temperature quotes
                  • Yes, but they are using that heat for other sources
                    • neither does your engine
        • especially when you can buy a 400 KW diesel genset for . . .
        • Hi Westy..... Yes, they did quote a price for the commerical units of $800k
          • On the interview I heard, inventor hoped to be able to get cost down to 3k.
    • Their website has more info and an Animation of how it works.