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LEADER: 02047cam a2200337 i 4500
001 2014038476
003 DLC
005 20150717083222.0
008 141208s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2014038476
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050 00 $aTK2945.L58$bL45 2015
082 00 $a621.31/2424$223
100 1 $aLeVine, Steve,$d1957-
245 14 $aThe powerhouse :$binside the invention of a battery to save the world /$cSteve LeVine.
264 1 $aNew York :$bVIKING,$c[2015]
300 $aix, 308 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $a"A worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming, and catapult the winner into a new era of economic and political mastery. Can the United States win? Steve LeVine was granted unprecedented access to a secret federal laboratory outside Chicago, where a group of geniuses is trying to solve this next monumental task of physics. But these scientists-- almost all foreign born--are not alone. With so much at stake, researchers in Japan, South Korea, and China are in the same pursuit. The drama intensifies when a Silicon Valley start-up licenses the federal laboratory's signature invention with the aim of a blockbuster sale to the world's biggest carmakers. The Powerhouse is a real-time, twoyear thrilling account of big invention, big commercialization, and big deception. It exposes the layers of competition and ambition, aspiration and disappointment behind this great turning point in the history of technology"-- Provided by publisher.
650 0 $aLithium ion batteries.
650 0 $aLithium industry.
650 0 $aElectric automobiles$xBatteries.
650 0 $aElectronic industries.
650 0 $aInventions$zUnited States.
610 20 $aArgonne National Laboratory.