{"title":"Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future— James Morton Turner (Seattle, WA, USA: Univ. Washington Press, 2022, 256 pp.)","authors":"Eric P. Wenaas","doi":"10.1109/MTS.2024.3367382","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The focus of the book Charged is on the battery, what else? James Morton Turner claims the battery is vitally important to unlocking a clean energy future. He says that his book explores the relationship between environmentalism, sustainability, and technology at a moment when such technological optimism is ascendant. Just as I believed this was going to be a “good news” book about the future of clean energy, supported by the production of lithium-ion batteries, Turner points out that skeptics believe batteries have “a dirty little secret”: “Although batteries may make it possible to scale up renewable energy sources, this transition risks trading one set of resource dependencies and environmental injustices for another.” So, just what message is Turner trying to convey?","PeriodicalId":55016,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Technology and Society Magazine","volume":"43 2","pages":"26-29"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10568166","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Technology and Society Magazine","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10568166/","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The focus of the book Charged is on the battery, what else? James Morton Turner claims the battery is vitally important to unlocking a clean energy future. He says that his book explores the relationship between environmentalism, sustainability, and technology at a moment when such technological optimism is ascendant. Just as I believed this was going to be a “good news” book about the future of clean energy, supported by the production of lithium-ion batteries, Turner points out that skeptics believe batteries have “a dirty little secret”: “Although batteries may make it possible to scale up renewable energy sources, this transition risks trading one set of resource dependencies and environmental injustices for another.” So, just what message is Turner trying to convey?
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