Overpotential : : Fuel Cells, Futurism, and the Making of a Power Panacea / / Matthew Eisler.
It sounds so simple. Just combine oxygen and hydrogen in an electrochemical reaction that produces water and electricity, and you'll have a clean, efficient power source. But scientists have spent decades-and billions of dollars in government and industry funding-developing the fuel cell. There...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Fuel Cell Futurism
- 1. Device in Search of a Role
- 2. Military Miracle Battery
- 3. Fuel Cells and the Final Frontier
- 4. Dawn of the Commercial Fuel Cell
- 5. Fueling Hydrogen Futurism
- 6. Green Automobile Wars
- 7. Electrochemical Millennium
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR