Description: Winner of the 24th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book PrizeFinalist for the 2023 Cundill History PrizeGold Medal Recipient, Nautilus Book Awards, SustainabilityTo achieve fossil fuel independence, few technologies are more important than batteries. Used for powering zero-emission vehicles, storing electricity from solar panels and wind turbines, and revitalizing the electric grid, batteries are essential to scaling up the renewable energy resources that help address global warming. But given the unique environmental impact of batteries--including mining, disposal, and more--does a clean energy transition risk trading one set of problems for another?In Charged, James Morton Turner unpacks the history of batteries to explore why solving "the battery problem" is critical to a clean energy transition. As climate activists focus on what a clean energy future will create--sustainability, resiliency, and climate justice--the history of batteries offers a sharp reminder of what building that future will consume: lithium, graphite, nickel, and other specialized materials. With new insight on the consequences for people and communities on the front lines, Turner draws on the past for crucial lessons that will help us build a just and clean energy future, from the ground up.
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EAN: 9780295752181
UPC: 9780295752181
ISBN: 9780295752181
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Book Title: Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Charged : a History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication Year: 2023
Subject: Global Warming & Climate Change, History, Public Policy / Environmental Policy
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 12.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: James Morton Turner
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Science
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Bks.
Format: Trade Paperback
