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

by James Morton Turner

Book Overview

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

The dirty work essential to a clean energy transition

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295750243
• ISBN13: 9780295750248
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher