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The Electric Battery: Charging Forward to a Low-carbon Future

Door Kevin B. - and others Jones

Categorie
Algemeen wetenschap
Boeknummer
#350043-ZB2
Titel
The Electric Battery: Charging Forward to a Low-carbon Future
Auteur
Jones, Kevin B. - and others
Boektype
Gebonden
Uitgeverij
Santa Barbara, CA : Praeger
Jaar van uitgave
2017
ISBN10
1440849013
ISBN13
9781440849015
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, illustrated with some photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting

An easy-to-understand and engaging exploration of the battery's development across history that reveals current technological advances, celebrates the innovators who have led the charge forward, and shows how the electric battery represents the path to a low-carbon future. Now more than ever, consumers want to understand not only the basic facts behind the electric battery and the challenges of battery storage in everyday devices, including vehicles, but also whether increased, widespread application of battery technology has real environmental benefits that could change the future of our planet. Is 21st-century battery technology the foundation on which our low-carbon future will be built? The Electric Battery: Charging Forward to a Low-Carbon Future documents the long history of the ba... (Lees verder)ttery and identifies the reasons it is now a key to achieving a low-carbon world. The book provides an unprecedented and easy-to-understand explanation of both the policy issues and technological challenges facing the battery in the quest to significantly reduce humanity's collective "carbon footprint" on the earth. Readers will be able to intelligently evaluate the chances of electric storage batteries ultimately becoming as mainstream as petroleum-product-fueled infrastructure and vehicles. The chapters in the book break down the complexity of the technology and elucidate the historic confluence of events that makes battery technology economically viable to any reader looking to understand the technological and policy breakthroughs that could enable a low-carbon future—for this generation as well as for subsequent ones.
Pagina's
212
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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