Mr. Fusion Much?

All,

If any of your remember what happens at the end of the first Back To The Future, then you will know what I am talking about. For those of you who don't, here is a short recap.

Marty McFly gets home to find that things are better than he left them. He has a new car, his nemesis is now an employee of his father, his parents are happy, and his girlfriend is there too. While talking to her, Dr. Brown comes blasting in and tells them that they have to go with him because their kids in the future are in trouble. During this talk Doc grabs a banana peel and a partially full beer can. He puts the peel, the beer, and the can into a device on his car. The device is called Mr. Fusion, and was apparently a mini-fusion reactor that could turn garbage into fuel. Since that day, Sci-fi fans have been waiting for Mr. Fusion to be a real thing.

Well, very soon it will be. The company Bloom has produced a device called "The Bloom Box" that produces power from.... ??? (some sort of fuel) and produces very little carbon-dioxide waste. The goal is that each of us would have one in our yard, which would allow us to unplug from the power grid. Additionally, you could put one in the back of a truck and drive it to where ever you wanted to have power.

The Bloom Box is a private attempt to take NASA technology and make it affordable so that the rest of us can have 100% renewable energy, at a low cost, with a very low carbon-footprint. It is as efficient as solar power, but doesn't have the dependencies on the weather.

Check it out HERE. We are within 10 years of one of these Bloom Boxes being available for about $3,000 per household. It just sounds too good to be true. The fact that Colin Powell is on the board of the company encourages me to trust it. I will try to keep my ear to the pavement on this one. I will keep everyone updated on the progress of the Bloom Box (or Bloom Box imitators).