Bloom Energy recently unveiled its new BloomBox – a solid oxide fuel cell that uses no precious metals or corrosive acids and doesn’t use combustion as it turns carbon-based or bio-based fuel into megawatts of electricity. This is certainly a marvelous breakthrough with a promising future. Those who are interested in energy solutions that don’t produce greenhouse gases should certainly sit up and take notice.

The states of Wyoming and Montana have huge tracts of coal which, under the current fervor of climate change have started to look less appealing both environmentally and economically. Right now, a huge percentage of the population of eastern Wyoming and Montana owe their economic viability to the existence of coal mining. Now, with new technology on the horizon, the future of those communities and the people in them  is beginning to look a little brighter. Turning coal into a clean fuel alternative would have huge implications to that region as well as to the environment around the world. I just say, more “power” to them – play on words intended.