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Powerhouse, The : America, China and the Great Battery War.by Levine New**
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- 2016-01-28
- Title
- Powerhouse, The : America, China and the Great Battery War
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- 9780143128328
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Type
- Textbook
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- The Powerhouse: America, China and the Great Battery War
- Item Height
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- Penguin Putnam INC International Concepts
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- 140mm
- Subject
- Business
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- 274g
- Number of Pages
- 310 Pages
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The Powerhouseis a real-time, two-year 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. 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 Powerhouseis a real-time, two-year 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. 'Mr. LeVine provides a fascinating insight into the challenges of scientific advancement, especially the difficulty of translating victories in the lab to the demands of the mass market.... Mr. LeVine has written something like a thriller . . . An important story with world-wide implications.'Wall Street Journal 'A propulsive techno-saga.'Nature 'Captivating . . . A rollicking good tale.'Joe Nocera,New York Times 'With the pace . . . of a thriller, LeVine . . . reveals how the very human foibles of scientists and entrepreneurs, as well as fundamental physics and chemistry, stand in the way of such efforts, which, if successful, could result in a new global industry and attendant jobs.'Scientific American
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Penguin Putnam INC International Concepts
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9780143128328
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The Powerhouse: America, China and the Great Battery War
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Business
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
310 Pages
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214mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
274g
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