SUNNYVALE, CA – With apologies to Chairman Mao, “Let a Hundred Boxes Bloom” may well be mantra and metaphor for the slickest, most attention-getting rollout yet of a fuel cell power plant in this emerging clean-energy industry. 

Emerging from nearly a decade of almost  unbroken secrecy, very generously funded startup Bloom Energy Corp. announced commercial availability of its 100 kW Bloom Energy ServerTM, more widely known as the fabled Bloom Box, in a Feb. 24 press conference at one of its first customers, eBay, here. Participating were top executives from more than half a dozen early big-name corporate customers as ... Log in to view full article.