The powerhouseSteve LeVine
The powerhouse
by Steve LeVine · first published 2015
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"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 dr
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…surprised this story and other like it haven't gotten more traction online). The second lives of batteries are incredibly underrated right now. By the way, let me also recommend Steve Levine's book The Powerhouse: America, China, and the Great Battery War, http://www.amazon.com/Powerhouse-America-China-Great-Battery..., which concerns the initial development of the Volt, among many other things. People who disdain…
on “How the 2016 Chevy Volt added 18 miles of EV range” ↗…Austin Office of Technology Commercialization is actively negotiating license agreements with multiple companies engaged in a variety of battery-related industry segments." I recommend the book "The Powerhouse: America, China, and the Great Battery War"[1], it goes into some detail about the legal issues around (one) li-ion design and Thackary's work with/without Goodenough and attribution. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Powerhouse-America-China-Great-Batter...
on “94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid State Battery” ↗A good battery specific coverage of this was http://www.amazon.com/The-Powerhouse-Inside-Invention-Batter...
on “MIT discovers batteries with indefinite lifetimes using solid-state-electrolytes” ↗If interested in battery technology and Argonne I'd recommend this book: "The Powerhouse: America, China, and the Great Battery War" [0] [0] https://www.amazon.com/Powerhouse-America-China-Great-Batter...
on “Argonne: Lithium-Air battery 1200 wh/kg, 1000 cycles” ↗Efforts are underway. Unfortunately, it's a tedious slog. There's a book by Steve LeVine, The Powerhouse, that describes the current environment of battery research and some of the main players (Argonne national lab, DoE, Startups, Korea, Japan, etc.). (It features Goodenough.)
on “94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid State Battery” ↗…there absolutely is a breakthrough-level difference in battery technology between, say, the 90s and today. Maybe battery nerds would say there were breakthrough moments like that, but when I read The Powerhouse (Steve Levine), which is about some of these developments, I came away surprised and impressed by how incremental but consistent the progress was. Same thing with solar panels. We figured out how to…
on “Taking CO2 out of the air would be an expensive way to fight climate change” ↗