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Chris Pollette

Hello, everyone. Welcome to TechStuff. My name is Chris Pollette and I am an editor at HowStuffWorks.com. Sitting across from me, as always, is senior writer Jonathan Strickland.

Jonathan Strickland

Hey, McFly, you BoJoe, those boards don’t work on water unless you got power. So let’s go straight into a little listener mail. This listener mail comes from Jeremy. Jeremy says, hi, my name is Jeremy and I am a big fan of the show. After listening to the one of plasma waste converters, I’m baffled as to why we have not fully embraced this amazing technology. I was wondering if you guys could do a show on something called a Bloom Box. I don’t know a lot about it, but I think it’s about the size of an ice chest and can power a home running off of natural gas. It seemed almost too good to be true. Hopefully, you can talk about it and keep up the good work. Thanks.

Well, thank you, Jeremy. We’ve decided we’re going to start a new series, not a new podcast, but a new series within our Podcast -

Chris Pollette

Because we like to do that.

Jonathan Strickland

This was suggested by Mr. Pollette, himself.

Chris Pollette

Indeed.

Jonathan Strickland

It’s demystifying the blank. So in this case, we’re demystifying the Bloom Box.

Chris Pollette

Awesome. For a second there, I thought we were playing Match Game.

Jonathan Strickland

I thought we were playing a puzzle game, computer puzzle game, graphically-driven. We were demyst-ifying the Bloom Box.

Chris Pollette

So the Bloom Box -

Jonathan Strickland

Yes. Actually, the Bloom Box is – did you go to Bloom Energy’s website?

Chris Pollette

Yes, I did. And I printed out the data sheet, which is apparently printed on recycled paper because it says that when I printed on it. I thought that was funny that they included that.

Jonathan Strickland

So it’s printed on recycled paper -

Chris Pollette

Yeah, they put it on the thing.

Jonathan Strickland

But how do they know?

Chris Pollette

I know. It’s amazing. These guys are fantastic. But no, this has been something that’s in the news. I actually wrote a blog post about it a few months ago because they sort of hit the scene at the right time. As a matter of fact, there was a thing on 60 Minutes, the TV news show here in America, about it not too long before I wrote that. It’s sort of been a buzz-worthy topic. But in a way, it’s kind of not new.