Bloom Energy
After spending eight years operating in “stealth mode,” Sridhar’s Silicon Valley outfit finally unveiled the Bloom Box, a device that converts natural gas into electricity with drastically lower carbon emissions. The box can work anywhere, from greenifying the headquarters of big corporations (Google, eBay, FedEx, Wal-Mart, and Coca-Cola are already customers) to electrifying developing nations, where an estimated 2.5 billion people live off the grid. Sridhar, 49, is aiming to have his mini-power plants in every home within 5 to 10 years.
