The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World by Steve Levine
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
[a:Steve Levine|446216|Steve Levine|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] has done an excellent job with small chapters and effective writing at making a potentially boring and tedious tale researchers in action (I am looking at you, [b:Bell Labs: Life in the Crown Jewel|13576717|Bell Labs Life in the Crown Jewel|Narain Gehani|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1333506643s/13576717.jpg|19159494]) engaging reading. But, to find it all ended up as a "sin of omission" that "crossed the line over into deception" when Envia's Kumar put out a falsehood at a news conferences ending up in extracting four million dollars from GM and crippling damage to GM, well, that's like a movie that ends up telling all it was a dream. Maybe if I had known more of recalled more news on this I would have read it as something like true crime not what I expect it was turning into: a successful race for innovation where America comes up from the rear in partnership of government sponsorship, brilliant scientists drawn from the world, and motivated entrepreneurs. This would have come more from hipping the reader to this mendacity at the beginning and unraveling the undercurrents of its motivation and effects. Apparently, Levine has uncovered nothing there,so is left with the science and (dashed) hopes.
(I received the book for free through Goodreads First Reads.)
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