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Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future

Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future

Audio Book

Series: Weyerhaeser Environmental Books

Technology & EngineeringSports GeneralEnvironmental Studies

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ISBN13: 9798228343009
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Published: Nov 19 2024
Language: English
Winner of the 24th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize

Finalist for the 2023 Cundill History Prize

Gold Medal Recipient, Nautilus Book Awards, Sustainability

To 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 the history of batteries offers a sharp reminder of what building that future will consume. 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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