The elective class I am taking this semester is ES 200 - Climate Change and Sustainability. The class deals mostly with ways in which humanity has affected the environment in the past, way we can reduce and limit our climate impact, and ways that we can create a self-sustaining society. Today's lecture focused on alternative sources of energy, such as Solar Photo Voltaic energy (known to the public as just "solar energy"), tidal and wave energy, and nuclear energy (though nuclear energy was approached tentatively because it can be qualified as both a sustainable and non-sustainable source of energy). While the professor lectured, I had a daydream that was relevant to the current lecture, and that day dreams focus was on the Bloom Box. The Bloom Box is a small black box that contains a uniquely engineered fuel cell, along with several layers of varying materials which, when the fuel cells percolate through the material, create energy. The most fascinating fact about this new, developing technology is that the energy it produces is essentially wireless. No cords or anything of the sort are necessary, and the energy that the Bloom Box produces is highly efficient and waste free (no carbon emissions, no waste by-products, nothing). I first saw the Bloom Box early in the year (sometime in January or February) on 60 Minutes, and I am very curious, as well as excited, as to how the technology will develop current energy economic systems further.
Here is a link to CBS's story on the bloom box ---------> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/18/60minutes/main6221135.shtml
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