Voodoo Bloom: A Brief History of Graphics, Part Four has been added as a related post - related requested by eric3579 on that post.

Voodoo Bloom: A Brief History of Graphics, Part Four has been added as a related post - related requested by eric3579 on that post.

Voodoo Bloom: A Brief History of Graphics, Part Four has been added as a related post - related requested by eric3579 on that post.

"I would rather get farted on by David Hasselhoff than punched by Orlando Bloom" - Chris Pratt

I could see this being a topic of great philosophical debate.

It's scary. I had CCD two years in a row, then year 3 I had foulbrood and had to destroy all my hives. Now my orchard is in full bloom, but there's hardly a bee working it. This sucks ass.

Wind turbines to provide the comparable megawatts for millions of homes ARE a frivolous waste. The huge amounts needed for wasteful, programmed, energy-addicted peeps IS a huge logistical clusterfuck of resources there, notarobot.

Your example of one family with a turbine and a solar array is fine and all (the upfront cost for such a setup is a shitload of funds and the upkeep of his dual set-up is probably a complete bitch of a money-pit to maintain) but were talking efficiency for the masses here.. Your 'research' should be based upon something besides what seems more of an emotionally passionate ideal moreso than anything practical for the many.

Personally, I think this virgin-trail-run Bloom box bullshit is simply another snake-oil scam. Much more work need be done to ever make them practical. What really should done in the realm of a practical kind of "reality" (otherwise known as a construct...reality that is) is to revive anti-trust/monopoly laws to hobble the robber-baron's once again...

Go listen some Bucky Fuller perhaps and try to awaken from the pipe-dream of monkey-business-as-usual instead of towing some lazy cop-out nouveau-hippy green-party line??

I don't see windmills as a blight or waste of space. The Bloom Boxes look great and I'm glad that they work well, but they still need a fuel. Windmills do not.

A few random factoids from the wikipedia page to cut through the fluff of this piece:
* On 24 February 2010, Sridhar claimed that his devices were making electricity for 8–10 cents/kWh...
* Bloom claims a conversion efficiency of around 50%.
* Sridhar said the boxes have a 10 year life span, although that could include replacing the cells during that period.
* ...the break-even period for the device comes to over 8 years, based on published performance numbers.
* ...the total lifetime of these systems would need to exceed 15 – 20 years to make an argument for a viable long-term...

Here's a first hunt from nanalyze...
http://www.nanalyze.com/2014/03/will-bloom-energy-ipo-in-2014/

Likes been said time and again and as many a hopeful maverick has experienced before, the major hurdles are gas and oil and electrical concerns whose interest and prime motivation is business as usual and being the only show on planet. All these concerns have to do is send out a few lawyers, private thugs with Halliburton silver attaches filled with threats and cash and the shit disappears, as well as the inventor sometimes...

"The Bloom Box is intended to replace the grid..."

I can guess that there might be a lot of people out there invested in current energy technology that would be unhappy about this succeeding....

This report is from 2010. Any news since?

look...at..you!
/giggles in delight

the path proceeds as understanding blooms.
loving wings of illuminated gossamer float on the sea of epiphany,
empathy and compassion emerge,
breaking the chains of egocentricity.
the lyric of truth enlightens the seekers path.

as the man pushes further...onward and upward.

and the watched becomes the watcher..once again.

namaste my friend.
namaste.

Yeah. The logo (an 80s cliché), and dinosaurs (another 80s cliché). "Everything" indeed.

Has it occurred to you that two works both based on 80s B-movies, and therefore not original material, will likely share many traits, without having to copy each other (the Kung Fury project was started around a year ago, according to its kickstarter page)?

80s revival did not start 8 months ago. A number of retro music projects, rebooted film franchises, and B-movie parodies have been popping up for the last few years, it was only a matter of time before a mid/maybe-full length movie happened. Who's late-blooming again?

Right.

Let's take a video game that's a parody of 80's movies and make a parody movie of the parody video game and at the same time is a parody of human naivety and =
profit from uneducated, late-blooming-dipshits!

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Mine smells like flowers-The imported kind from the tropics that grow at the arboretum....blooms once a year.