Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy

"A gripping introduction to this sophisticated technology and its place in our society." -Nature

Lithium batteries may hold the key to an environmentally sustainable, oil-independent future. From electric cars to a "smart" power grid that can actually store electricity, letting us harness the powers of the sun and the wind and use them when we need them, lithium-a metal half as dense as water, found primarily in some of the most uninhabitable places on earth-has the potential to set us on a ...