That's a year old BTW, and Bloom is a direct competition with...

That's a year old BTW, and Bloom is a direct competition with Gas Turbine power, and it was bagging Bloom essentially because on the huge development cost and subsidies. etc.

Try this Bluegen doesn't compete with Bloom ( yes they are fuel cells ), because of capacity and being able to be modulated. Bloom does not modulate output like Bluegen.

So this question for thought,

What is the reactive power benefit of coupling Solar with Bluegen with GSHP?

Some answers here: http://certs.lbl.gov/pdf/thomas-mkts-white-paper.pdf

$10,000 US MWh = $10 US KWh vs retail price locally say $ 0.26 KWh, hows that stack up? ( Check the article that $10,000 is from it)

More tech data here:
http://www.uclm.es/area/gsee/Archivos Pag-web/workshop/presentations/Jin_Zhong.pdf
and here
http://www.theijes.com/papers/v1-i2/H012048053.pdf

My answer is Bluegen is undervalued which is why Germany is prepared to subsidize it and keep subsidizing it.

If I may add, no of course it does not make sense if you see it as purely producing power at 26 c KWh but that it missing the real value. Perhaps that is also a criticism of market economics, and economics in general, economics is quite myopic unless very carefully scrutinised.