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Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy

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Lithium batteries may hold the key to an environmentally sustainable, oil-independent future. From electric cars to a “smart” power grid that can in truth 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 one of the most uninhabitable places on the planet―has the potential to set us on a path toward a low-carbon energy economy.

In Bottled Lightning, Seth Fletcher takes us on a captivating journey, from the salt flats of Bolivia to the labs of MIT and Stanford, from the turmoil at GM to state-of-the-art lithium-ion battery start-ups, introducing us to the key players and ideas in an industry with the power to reshape the world. Lithium is the thread that ties together many an important stories of our time: the environmental movement; the American auto industry, staking its revival at the electrification of cars and trucks; the struggle between first-world countries in need of natural resources and the impoverished countries where those resources are found; and the overwhelming popularity of the portable, Web-connected gadgets that are changing the way we keep in touch. With nearly limitless possibilities, the promise of lithium offers new hope to a foundering American economy desperately in search of a green-tech boom to revive it.

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