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Charged
A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy FutureWeyerhaeuser Environmental Books
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37,99 € |
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| Verlag: | University Of Washington Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 09.08.2022 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780295750262 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 256 |
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Beschreibungen
<p>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?</p>
<p>In <i>Charged</i>, 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.</p>
<p>In <i>Charged</i>, 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.</p>
<p>The dirty work essential to a clean energy transition</p>
<p>James Morton Turner is professor of environmental studies at Wellesley College. He is author of <i>The Promise of Wilderness: American Environmental Politics since 1964</i> and coauthor of <i>The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump</i>.</p>
<p>"<i>Charged</i> is history that can make history. Turner's brilliant book will help with one of the great challenges of our time—the transition to a sustainable energy system. Full of arresting insights, written with grace and verve, <i>Charged</i> ends with smart suggestions about what still needs to change for batteries to drive a greener future. It's a model for historians who aim to shape contemporary debate about pressing issues and a must-read for everyone working to move the world beyond fossil fuels."—Adam Rome, author of <i>The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation</i></p>
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