[TheAntiDoomer]

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Bloom’s Web site offers no information about the company. CNN Money in 2007 placed Bloom on its list of 15 companies that will change the world, and it said Bloom’s fuel cell could disrupt the idea that power has to come from central power plants. Sridhar’s plan calls for making fuel cells that can run on any hydrocarbon fuel, including ethanol, biodiesel, methane or natural gas.

The cells, though, don’t require combustion and produce only half the greenhouse gas emissions of conventional energy.

According to a press release from eBay, the company will unveil a new state-of-the-art green data center next year that will house more than a third of its global data infrastructure. The site, which is being built to the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold standard in South Jordan, Utah, will deliver state-of-the-art efficiencies in cooling and power management, as well as in IT infrastructure and software.

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Dude. Do you have any idea how insignificant 500 kilowatts of electricity really is? Fifteen Toyota Yaris use the equivelent in gasoline

500 kW is not insignificant if it's scalable, and has positive EROEI in the locations it's deployed.

just as a point of reference, a 22 acre methane-from-landfill site in Sonoma County generates 7 MW (using conventional generators which burn the methane) which powers about 2000 homes.

7 MW isn't much either but - how many landfills are there ?