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The powerhouse : inside the invention of a battery to save the world / by LeVine, Steve,1957-(CARDINAL)483596;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-299) and index.The stakes. Jeff Chamberlain's war ; Why Argonne let Wan in ; A good place to do science ; "Discouraged weariness in the eyes" ; Professor Goodenough ; The double marathoner ; Batteries are a treacherous world ; Creating NMC ; The man from Casablanca ; Theft in the lab ; The new boss ; A little talk with the South Koreans ; What Andy Grove said ; How to navigate great minds -- Foreigners in the lab. The Start-up ; Out of India (and China and Africa) ; Why we stay in Chicago ; IPO! ; The car man ; Bell men ; The no start-up mystery ; "The Damn Hub" ; Team Argonne ; Fire ; A chance to win the lottery ; "There is a problem with your material" ; An engineering solution ; Going deep on the fade -- Reckoning. Orlando ; The old technology guys ; Only the Irrational or the nave will win the day ; A three-hundred-mile battery ; ARPA-E ; The old and the young ; Red team ; War room ; Getting to a deal ; "So what Is wrong with me?" ; "Throw out the old paradigm" ; The waiting ; Deal ; The news from Envia ; The big man at Argonne ; Second quarter review ; Black box ; Back to the race."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 Powerhouse is 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Argonne National Laboratory.; Lithium ion batteries.; Lithium industry.; Electric automobiles; Electronic industries.; Inventions;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Long hard road : the lithium-ion battery and the electric car / by Murray, Charles J.,1954-author.(CARDINAL)638112;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-310) and index.Part I. The making of a battery: The fast-ion concept -- Goodenough's cathode -- Thackeray's cathode -- The graphite anode -- Japan's battery -- Part II. The heart of the electric car: The electric car quest -- The lithium-ion car -- Electric salvation -- Detroit awakens -- Validation: The Nobel."Long Hard Road: The Lithium-Ion Battery and the Electric Car provides an inside look at the birth of the lithium-ion battery, from its origins in academic labs around the world to its transition to its new role as the future of automotive power. It chronicles the piece-by-piece development of the battery, from its early years when it was met by indifference from industry to its later emergence in Japan where it served in camcorders, laptops, and cell phones. The book is the first to provide a glimpse inside the Japanese corporate culture that turned the lithium-ion chemistry into a commercial product. It shows the intense race between two companies, Asahi Chemical and Sony Corporation, to develop a suitable anode. It also explains, for the first time, why one Japanese manufacturer had to build its first preproduction cells in a converted truck garage in Boston, Massachusetts. Building on that history, Long Hard Road then takes readers inside the auto industry to show how lithium-ion solved the problems of earlier battery chemistries and transformed the electric car into a viable competitor. Starting with the Henry Ford and Thomas Edison electric car of 1914, it chronicles a long list of automotive failures, then shows how a small California car converter called AC Propulsion laid the foundation for a revolution by packing its car with thousands of tiny lithium-ion cells. The book then takes readers inside the corporate board rooms of Detroit to show how mainstream automakers finally decided to adopt lithium-ion. Long Hard Road is unique in its telling of the lithium-ion tale, revealing that the battery chemistry was not the product of a single inventor, nor the dream of just three Nobel Prize winners, but rather was the culmination of dozens of scientific breakthroughs from many inventors whose work was united to create a product that ultimately changed the world"--
Subjects: Lithium ion batteries; Lithium cells; Electric automobiles;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Lithium in surficial materials of the conterminous United States and partial data on cadmium, by Geological Survey (U.S.)(CARDINAL)154385; Shacklette, Hansford T.(CARDINAL)269285;
Bibliography: pages 7-8.
Subjects: Soils; Soils; Soils;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The alkali metals : lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, francium / by Lew, Kristi,author.(DLC)n 2007039047;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-46) and index.The alkali metals -- Atomic structure of the alkali metals -- Uses for the alkali metals -- The alkali metals in compounds -- The alkali metals and you.An introduction to the alkali elements, lithium, sodium, potassium, cesium, and francium, that provides information on their properties and explains how they are used in everyday life.
Subjects: Alkali metals; Periodic law;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Eagle-Picher Industries, Joplin, Missouri. by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.(CARDINAL)142572;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 15-19).
Subjects: Eagle-Picher Industries.; Industrial hygiene; Lithium alloys;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Surviving manic depression : a manual on bipolar disorder for patients, families, and providers / by Torrey, E. Fuller(Edwin Fuller),1937-(CARDINAL)124130; Knable, Michael B.(CARDINAL)662185;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Dimensions of manic-depressive illness -- The inner world: mania and depression from the inside -- The outer worlds: manic-depressive illness defined -- Conditions sometimes confused with manic-depressive illness -- Risk factors for developing manic-depressive illness -- Onset, course, and outcome -- Causes -- Medications: mood stabilizers -- Medications: antidepressants, antipsychotics, and benzodiazapines -- Medications: treatment strategies -- Nonmedication aspects of treatment -- Manic-depressive illness in children and adolescents -- Ten special problems: concurrent alcohol and drug abuse, assaultive and violent behavior, medication noncompliance, assisted treatment, homelessness, arrests and jailings, suicide, sex and AIDS, confidentiality, the seduction of mania -- Manic-depressive illness and creativity -- Commonly asked questions -- Issues for advocates.
Subjects: Schizophrenia.; Lithium; Bipolar disorder.; Bipolar disorder; Bipolar disorder;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 9
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Nothing general about it : how love (and lithium) saved me on and off General Hospital / by Benard, Maurice,author.(CARDINAL)834699; Black, Susan(Screenwriter),author.;
The true story of General Hospital's Maurice Benard has been blessed with family, fame, and a successful career. For twenty-five years, he has played one of the most well-known characters on daytime television: General Hospital. Nothing General About It includes a 16-page insert featuring approximately 50 photographs.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Benard, Maurice.; Television actors and actresses; Mentally ill;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11
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The war below : lithium, copper, and the global battle to power our lives / by Scheyder, Ernest,author.(CARDINAL)886131;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-357) and index.Prologue: a discovery -- Introduction: a turning point -- A Choice -- Sacred space -- Radical work -- The leaf blower -- A longing -- A single point of failure -- Bright green lies? -- A rebirth -- Lonely are the brave -- The neighbors -- "Electricity means copper" -- The entrepreneur -- Green technology -- An elusive prize -- The seedlings -- Epilogue."A new economic war for critical minerals has begun, and The War Below is an urgent dispatch from its front lines. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of other devices means the world must dig more mines to extract lithium, copper, and other vital building blocks. But mines are deeply unpopular, even as they have a role to play in fighting climate change and powering crucial technologies. These tensions have sparked a worldwide reckoning over the sourcing of necessary materials, and no one understands the complexities of these issues better than Ernest Scheyder, whose exclusive access to sites around the globe has allowed him to gain unparalleled insights into a future without fossil fuels. The War Below reveals the explosive brawl among industry titans, conservationists, community groups, policymakers, and many others over whether some places are too special to mine or whether the habitats of rare plants, sensitive ecosystems, Indigenous holy sites, and other places should be dug up for their riches. With vivid and engaging writing, Scheyder shows the human toll of this war and explains why recycling and other newer technologies have struggled to gain widespread use. He also expertly chronicles Washington's attempts to wean itself off supply from China, the global leader in mineral production and processing. The War Below paints a powerfully honest and nuanced picture of what is at stake in this new fight for energy independence, revealing how America and the rest of the world's hunt for the "new oil" directly affects us all."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Mines and mineral resources; Mines and mineral resources; Mineral industries; Natural resources; Geopolitics.;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 12
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Material world : the six raw materials that shape modern civilization / by Conway, Ed,1979-author.(CARDINAL)878669; Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.,publisher.(CARDINAL)133459;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-470) and index.Introduction -- Part one: Sand. Homo Faber ; Built upon sand ; The longest journey -- Part two: Salt. Salt routes ; Salt of the Earth ; The fire drug ; Postscript: many salts -- Part three: Iron. You don't have a country ; Inside the volcano ; The last blast -- Part four: Copper. The next greatest thing ; The hole ; The deep -- Part five: oil. Elephant ; Pipes ; The everything thing ; Postscript: peak oil --Part six: Lithium. White gold ; Jelly rolls ; Unmanufacturing -- Conclusion."The story of civilization from an entirely new vantage point--the six raw materials that have shaped and will continue to shape humanity's destiny. Sand, iron, salt, oil, copper and lithium: The struggle for these fundamental materials has created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and our greed for thousands of years. It is a story that is far from finished. Though we are told we now live in a weightless world of information, we dug more stuff out of the earth in 2017 than in all of human history before 1950. And it's getting exponentially worse. To make one bar of gold, we now have to dig 5,000 tons of earth. For every ton of fossil fuels, we extract six tons of other materials--from sand to stone to wood to metal. Even as we pare back our consumption of fossil fuels we continue to redouble our consumption of everything else. Why? Because these ingredients are the basis for everything. They power our phones and electric cars, build our homes and offices, enable the printing of our books, and supply our packaging. Our modern world would not exist without them, and the hidden battle to control them will shape our future. This is an epic journey across continents, cultures and epochs that captures the astonishing extent to which humanity's prosperity is intertwined with what we extract from the earth and adapt to our needs and desires. It is a story of our past and future, from the ground up"--
Subjects: Raw materials.; Mines and mineral resources.; Sand; Salt; Iron; Copper; Petroleum; Lithium; Economics;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 9
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The blue horse / by Borgos, Bruce,author.(CARDINAL)872837;
"A controversial wild horse round-up in the high desert of Nevada results in two murders and too many suspects for Sheriff Porter Beck to deal with. A helicopter driving a controversial round-up of wild horses suddenly crashes and the pilot is found to have been shot. Then the person coordinating the round-up for the Bureau of Land Management is savagely murdered, buried up to her neck and then trampled to death by the very same wild horses. And there's no lack of suspects-with the wild horse advocacy group having sworn to protect the horse At Any Cost! Now the state and federal agencies are showing up looking for answers or at least a scapegoat. Sheriff Porter Beck has had better days. Porter Beck's new girlfriend, Detective Charlie Blue Horse, arrives to help with the investigation, which leads them to Canadian Lithium mining operation near the round-up area that sets off Beck's mental alarm bells. Brinley, Beck's sister, is leading a group of troubled kids in a wilderness program, when one of them, Rafa, bolts one night. When Brinley catches up to him, they're just outside the mine-in the wrong place, at the wrong time. With his personal life in turmoil, too many suspects and too many secrets, the feds pushing for a quick resolution, and his impetuous (if skilled) sister in the mix, one wrong step could be deadly for Porter Beck"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Wild horses; Women detectives; Murder; Sheriffs; Federal government; Lithium mines and mining; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 8
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