Overpotential

Fuel Cells, Futurism, and the Making of a Power Panacea

Matthew Eisler (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

274 Seiten

2012 | First Edition, First Edition
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-5177-7 (ISBN)

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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 have been successes and serendipitous discoveries along the way, but engineering a fuel cell that is both durable and affordable has proved extraordinarily difficult.

Overpotential charts the twists and turns in the ongoing quest to create the perfect fuel cell. By exploring the gap between the theory and practice of fuel cell power, Matthew N. Eisler opens a window into broader issues in the history of science, technology, and society after the Second World War, including the sociology of laboratory life, the relationship between academe, industry, and government in developing advanced technologies, the role of technology in environmental and pollution politics, and the rise of utopian discourse in science and engineering.

MATTHEW N. EISLER is a historian of science and technology, and is a lecturer at the University of Virgina. His research focuses on the political economy, culture, and discourse of science-based innovation, particularly in the energy and transportation sectors.

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

Reihe/Serie	Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
ISBN-10	0-8135-5177-3 / 0813551773
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-5177-7 / 9780813551777
Zustand	Neuware