Bottled Lightning
Page 31
World Columbian Exposition (1893)
World People’s Congress on Climate Change
World Solar Challenge (1987)
World Trade Center
World War I,
World War II
X-ray diffractometers (XRD)
Yaksic, Andrés
Yale University
Yamani, Sheikh
Yergin, Daniel
Yokohama
Young, William Roe
Yuasa Battery
Zaunscherb, Eric
Zielenski, Nick
Zimbabwe
zinc
zinc-carbon battery
zinc-copper cell
zinc-nickel-oxide battery
zinc-platinum cell
zirconium
Zuleta, Juan Carlos
Copyright © 2011 by Seth Fletcher
Map copyright © 2011 by Chris Canipe
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eISBN 9781429922913
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First edition, 2011
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fletcher, Seth, 1979–
Bottled lightning : superbatteries, electric cars, and the new lithium economy /
Seth Fletcher.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Lithium cells. 2. Lithium industry. 3. Electronic industries. I. Title.
TK2945.L58 F58 2011
621.31’2423—dc22
2010047695