Can Bloom Box change the world?

We interrupt our regular garden reporting to bring you this: Bloom Box, a tiny fuel cell no bigger than a box of Lipton’s Tea that will power your entire home grid-free. Developed in secret in Silicon Valley, the Bloom Box is already powering parts of Google, EBay, Fed-X and WalMart. EBay CEO John Donahoe told Leslie Stahl that “the Bloom Box puts out five times as much power that we can actually use.” 

And, at a fraction of the cost of solar panels at just $3000 per box. Inventor K.R. Sridhar holds up two Bloom Boxes, saying that’s what an average American home would need compare to one for British homes.

Sridhar would like to see one installed in the White House Rose Garden next. I guess that’s where the Bloom Box lives, in the garden or on the lawn.

Fascinating store here.