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"Or, is it possible that the whole thing simply doesn't work as well as they claim?

Rupert Goodwins at ZDNet thinks this all smells.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/mixed-signals-10000051/bloom-energy-more-noise-than-sense-10015230/

What Bloom does is not a revolutionary technology, but a drastic reduction in the price of something well-understood, using top-secret methods.

In Rupert's experience (and mine) when someone promises orders of magnitude improvements, provided by means that are "too secret to reveal", and offered in prototypes that are carefully protected from actual investigation, what you very often have is a level of "optimism" close to fraud.

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