From: Jed Rothwell
* Here is an iffy claim. "Carbon Sequestration..The pure CO2 emission allows for easy and cost-effective carbon sequestration from the Bloom systems." Yeah, right. You are going to sequester CO2 in a million different locations? Whoa ! The breakthrough which is needed for this is actually on the horizon now - but it is not "sequestration", per se - instead a FAR better solution. And it probably works best in "a million different locations" since it can be tightly controlled in a closed cycle. It involves a kind of archaic algae which will thrive on hot water and CO2. Solar irradiation is not required. The organisms were found in hot springs and in deep mines, and are being hybridized to flourish on heat, with or without light. A vertical tank, no bigger than a hot water heater, could in principal convert pure CO2 (no CO or sulfur) with waste heat, back into a carbohydrate which can then be reused in the Bloom Box to partially, or fully, close the loop. This adds an entirely new meaning to the Bloom box, no? I would say that an early LENR or fractional hydrogen converter could provide the energy deficit (in heat or light) necessary to close the loop, even if alone they are not robust enough to power the home. Obviously when fully perfected, the LENR or fractional hydrogen converter would not need the extra expense and complication, but it could be decades before that happens. Here is the way it could work. A normal Bloom Box is provided, with methane connections for startup, and CO2 exhaust is ported to the thermal-algae tank. Algae is grown, harvested (by straining) and reformed into biogas in an automatic system. The biogas is then sent to Bloom box, so that the methane use can drastically reduced or eliminated. You might need to get "Steve Dallas" involved to keep this out of the purview of Big Oil and T-Bone, since it really chaps that they could get cut-out of the supply picture before it ever gets started. This system approaches the holy grail of carbon neutral, and is not that far away since a company called GreenShift claims to have already used thermophillic cyanobacteria to consume carbon dioxide emissions in a process which still requires solar irradiation. If algae hybrids cannot be engineered to grow rapidly on waste heat alone, then a prime market for LENR would be the glow discharge reactor, almost exactly like the Mizuno experiment, which also produces hydrogen - for use in the Bloom Box. Here is the type of experiment which needs to be pushed to a prototype: http://jlnlabs.online.fr/cfr/mizuno/index.htm This could make the Bloom Box essentially a direct converter of electricity from hydrogen produced by LENR - with or without the algae. Algae would not doubt make it easier to close the loop. Nice and clean . but wait till the MIB get involved. Jones
