Fuel cells from secretive "Bloom Energy" in "Who Needs the Grid?" (via @theatlantic)

Frame from 2005 presentation by "Ion America" to U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy (link to pdf below)

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200912/wallace-energy

"A new fuel cell technology may revolutionize access to cheap, clean energy."

"In the boardroom at Bloom Energy, a single picture hangs on the wall: a satellite image of the world at night... (below)

"...Standing almost reverently before the image, K. R. Sridhar, the CEO of Bloom, points to the dark areas--places where electricity isn't accessible or reliable. "This is my motivation for everything," he says. To improve the lot of the more than 2 billion people living in those dark areas, he says, you have to get them reliable, affordable energy. And if you don't want to doom the environment in the process, you have to make that energy very clean..."

Going Further:

Ebay to get Power Boost from Bloom Energy (Oct. 19, 2009)

http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/10/19/story7.html?b=1255924800%5E2279931

Tonic.com: eBay Bids Up Bloom Energy Fuel Cells

http://www.tonic.com/article/ebay-first-to-demonstrate-bloom-fuel-cells/

Bloom Energy's website (totally worthless):

http://www.bloomenergy.com/

When named "Ion America," this presentation was given to the Office of Science and Technology Policy: (frame above)

PDF here: http://www.ostp.gov/pdf/sridhar_ionamerica_pcast_20sep05.pdf

San Jose Mercury News: Kleiner Perkins, Stealth, and Ion America

http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2004/11/17/kleiner_perkins_stealth_and_ion_america.html

San Jose Mercury News: "Secretive Hydrogen Fuel Company "Ion America, raises $103 million"

http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2006/08/04/secretive_hydrogen_fuel_company_ion_america_raises_103m.html

University of Tennessee: Results of tests claiming success on Ion's fuel cell technology:

http://www.hydrogen.energy.gov/pdfs/review06/tvp_5_henry.pdf

Profile of the CEO (link in Atlantic piece): 

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?author=236

A 2006 post from ecogeek on Bloom's project funded by Kleiner-Perkins:

Linked by Atlantic: http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/411/

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