Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium EconomyLithium batteries may 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 the wind and use them when we need them, lithium—a metal half as dense as water, found primarily in some of the most uninhabitable places on earth—has the potential to set us on a path toward a low-carbon energy economy. |
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معاينة المستخدمين - John_Hardy - LibraryThingExcellent. 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 ... قراءة التقييم بأكمله
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معاينة المستخدمين - fpagan - LibraryThingReportage, 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 ... قراءة التقييم بأكمله
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2 False Start | 22 |
3 The Wireless Revolution | 39 |
4 Reviving the Electric Car | 60 |
5 The Blank Spot at the Heart of the Car | 75 |
6 The Lithium Wars | 93 |
7 The Brink | 110 |
10 The Lithium Triangle | 167 |
11 The Goal | 192 |
Epilogue | 207 |
Appendix Global Lithium Reserves and Identified Resources | 217 |
Notes | 219 |
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Acknowledgments | 241 |
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