New way to extract electricity from Natural Gas

Bloom box is, Quote, "A solid oxide regenerative fuel cell system [that] is used to supply power in a fuel cell mode and to generate metabolic oxygen and a hydrocarbon fuel reserve in an electrolysis mode."
http://www.bloomenergy.com/

Upclose look
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7572530.PN.&OS=PN/7572530&RS=PN/7572530

http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/week06/OG/html/1351-2/US07658755-20100209.html

http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/week06/OG/patentee/alphaR.htm


Quote, "The 5-kilowatt device involves a fuel cell system that can generate electricity using a range of liquid fuels, such as natural gas or ethanol. Installed at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga in 2006, one of the earliest Bloom box units (running on natural gas) to deliver enough power at twice the efficiency of a standard gas-burning boiler system, with 60 percent fewer emissions."

http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/02/19/is-k-r-sridhars-magic-box-ready-for-prime-time/

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2010/0222/Bloom-Box-What-60-Minutes-left-out

http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=36880