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Bottled lightning (2011)

de Seth Fletcher

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"An exploration of the rise of lithium batteries and the impications of the new energy economy"--Provided by publisher. The tools that have become so ubiquitous--laptops, iPods, and cell phones--are all powered by lithium batteries. This element may also hold the key to an environmentally sustainable, oil-independent future. From electric cars to a "smart" power grid that can actually store electricity, letting us harness the powers of the sun and wind and use them when we need them, lithium--found primarily in some of the most uninhabitable places on Earth--is key to the path toward a carbon-free future. It's also shifting the geopolitical chessboard in profound ways. Science reporter Seth Fletcher takes us on a journey from the salt flats of Bolivia to the labs of MIT and Stanford, introducing us to the key players and ideas in an industry with the power to reshape the world. Lithium ties together many key stories of our time: the environmental movement, the American auto industry, the struggle between first-world countries in need of natural resources and the countries where those resources are found, and a foundering American economy, desperately searching for a green-tech boom.--From publisher description.… (més)
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Dispels any myths regarding the “shortage” of lithium. ( )
  RFBrost | Nov 2, 2017 |
Excellent. The author is a science reporter and this book is both an easy read and also informative and well researched (it was recommended to me by an academic, a Fellow of the Royal Society which says it all really). It covers the history of Lithium cells and puts flesh on the dry bones of Lithium supply. A nice choice of title too!
  John_Hardy | Oct 23, 2011 |
Reportage, much of it on batteries and lithium. Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf are Fletcher's main examples of electric cars. He of course cites air pollution and carbon emissions as reasons for lessening the prevalence of the infernal combustion engine but, all too typically, he leaves noise pollution virtually unmentioned. (Lack of attention to and consciousness of noise pollution pervades society generally.)
  fpagan | Jul 25, 2011 |
This is a detailed history of the lithium-oim batteery developmemt and on-going refinement. There are no photos or illustrations. There are no first-person accounts of using any of the batteries, only a few interviews with the developers about the testing, designing and manufacturing phase of making a product.

There is a a little background on early car batteries from around 1900 to 1915, and again about the GM EV1. But there is nothing at all on hybrid autos, especially nothing at all on nickel-metal hydride batteries that power most high milage autos today.

The focus of the book is lithium batteries and ristricts topics directly addressing that battery, or tries to. However the author does stray in the end to sulphur and silicon.

For a history of the lithium electrode in batteries, this is a good reference. ( )
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"An exploration of the rise of lithium batteries and the impications of the new energy economy"--Provided by publisher. The tools that have become so ubiquitous--laptops, iPods, and cell phones--are all powered by lithium batteries. This element may also hold the key to an environmentally sustainable, oil-independent future. From electric cars to a "smart" power grid that can actually store electricity, letting us harness the powers of the sun and wind and use them when we need them, lithium--found primarily in some of the most uninhabitable places on Earth--is key to the path toward a carbon-free future. It's also shifting the geopolitical chessboard in profound ways. Science reporter Seth Fletcher takes us on a journey from the salt flats of Bolivia to the labs of MIT and Stanford, introducing us to the key players and ideas in an industry with the power to reshape the world. Lithium ties together many key stories of our time: the environmental movement, the American auto industry, the struggle between first-world countries in need of natural resources and the countries where those resources are found, and a foundering American economy, desperately searching for a green-tech boom.--From publisher description.

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