Bloom Energy has been testing a new device that can generate
power on the spot, without being connected to the electric grid,
that's inexpensive and clean, with no emissions. It is called
the Bloom Box. Bloom Energy, is about to make public its
invention: a little power plant-in-a-box they want to put
literally in your backyard. You'll generate your own electricity
with the box and it'll be wireless. The idea is to one day
replace the big power plants and transmission line grid, the way
the laptop moved in on the desktop and cell phones supplanted
landlines. Will we have one in every home someday? Lesley Stahl
from 60 Minutes reports. K.R. Sridhar invited "60 Minutes"
correspondent Lesley Stahl for a first look at the innards of
the Bloom box that he has been toiling on for nearly a decade.
Looking at one of the boxes, Sridhar told Stahl it could power
an average U.S. home. "The way we make it is in two blocks. This
is a European home. The two put together is a U.S. home," he
explained. "'Cause we use twice a