2010 is now more than half over, and cleantech continues to progress at a startling rate during this hot summer. The Gulf oil spill flow is stopped for now; but there is more.
Last week, for example, President Obama made another visit (his fourth) to a manufacturing facility in Holland, Michigan where electric vehicles and advanced batteries are dreamed of and made. Moreover, the Department of Energy also released last week a report on the massive, billion dollar governmental efforts to promote electric vehicles and advanced batteries.
Putting battery technology into perspective, also, is a new book, The Battery, How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution, Henry Schlesinger, Harper-Collins, 2010. This is a very readable book, designed for the general reader (although Schlesinger arguably spends too much time detailing how battery technology developed from 1800-1950 compared to explaining the more recent and current developments integral to our lives).
More perspective: …