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- Electric motor experiments / by Sobey, Edwin J. C.,1948-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 126), Internet addresses and index."Presents several science projects dealing with electric motors"--Provided by publisher.LSC- Subjects: Electric motors; Science projects;
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- Insane mode : how Elon Musk's Tesla sparked an electric revolution to end the age of oil / by McKenzie, Hamish(Journalist);
Includes bibliographical references and index.LSC- Subjects: Musk, Elon.; Tesla Motors.; Electric vehicle industry; Alternative fuel vehicle industry; Electric power.; Renewable energy sources.;
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- Power play : Tesla, Elon Musk, and the bet of the century / by Higgins, Tim(Journalist),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Inside the outrageous, come-from-behind story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the perfect car. Elon Musk is among the most controversial titans of Silicon Valley. To some he's a genius and a visionary; to others he's a mercurial con artist. Billions of dollars have been gained and lost on his tweets; his personal exploits are the stuff of tabloids. But for all his outrageous talk of mind-uploading and space travel, his most audacious vision is the one closest to the ground: the electric car. When Tesla was founded in the mid 2000s, electric cars were novelties, trotted out and thrown on the scrapheap by carmakers for more than a century. But where most onlookers saw only failure, a small band of Silicon Valley engineers and entrepreneurs saw potential. The gas-guzzling car was in need of disruption; the world was ready for Car 2.0. So they pitted themselves against the biggest, fiercest business rivals in the world, setting out to make a car that was faster, sexier, smoother, cleaner than the competition. But as the saying goes, to make a small fortune in cars, start with a big fortune. Tesla would undergo a truly hellish fifteen years, beset by rivals, pressured by creditors, hobbled by whistleblowers, buoyed by its loyal supporters. Musk himself would often prove Tesla's worst enemy--his antics more than once took the company he had funded largely with his own money to the brink of collapse. Was he an underdog, an antihero, a conman, or some combination of the three? Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter Tim Higgins had a front-row seat for the drama: the pileups, wrestling for control, meltdowns, and the unlikeliest outcome of all: success. A story of power, recklessness, struggle, and triumph, Power Play is an exhilarating look at how a team of eccentrics and innovators beat the odds--and changed the future"--- Subjects: Musk, Elon.; Tesla Motors.; Alternative fuel vehicle industry; Automobile industry and trade; Electric vehicle industry;
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- Car wars : the rise, the fall, and the resurgence of the electric car / by Fialka, John J.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Award-winning former Wall Sreet Journal reporter John Fialka brings to life this thrilling and important story about American's rejection and second obsession with the electric car. Starting with the early days of the electric car, Fialka documents the M.I.T./Caltech race between prototypes in the summer of 1968 and takes readers up to visionaries like Elon Musk and the upstart young Tesla Motors. Today, the electric has captured the imagination and pocketbooks of American consumers. Organizations like the U.S. Department of Energy and the state of California, along with companies from the old-guard of General Motors and Toyota have embraced the once-extinct technology. The electric car has steadily gained traction in the U.S. and around the world. We are watching the start of a trillion dollar, worldwide race to see who will dominate one of the biggest commercial upheavals of the 21st century. Drawing from the last decade of his 26-year career at the Wall Street Journal, where he covered energy and environmental matters, ClimateWire founder and industry insider John Fialka recounts the creation and eventual acceptance of the electric car in this thorough, historical look at a subculture, the captains of industry and the technology that made the whole thing possible"--- Subjects: Electric automobiles;
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- Energy : a human history / by Rhodes, Richard,1937-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time--wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond. People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy challenges. Ultimately, the history of these challenges tells the story of humanity itself. Through an unforgettable cast of characters, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as we now turn to natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy. Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I, King James I, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford. In Energy, Rhodes highlights the successes and failures that led to each breakthrough in energy production; from animal and waterpower to the steam engine, from internal-combustion to the electric motor. He addresses how we learned from such challenges, mastered their transitions, and capitalized on their opportunities. Rhodes also looks at the current energy landscape, with a focus on how wind energy is competing for dominance with coal and natural gas. He also addresses the specter of global warming, and a population hurtling towards ten billion by 2100. Human beings have confronted the problem of how to draw life from raw material since the beginning of time. Each invention, each discovery, each adaptation brought further challenges, and through such transformations, we arrived at where we are today. In Rhodes's singular style, Energy details how this knowledge of our history can inform our way tomorrow.- Subjects: Energy development; Energy development; Power resources; Power resources;
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- Elon Musk / by Isaacson, Walter,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 619-636) and index."From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era -- a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Musk, Elon.; SpaceX (Firm); Tesla Motors.; Businessmen; Engineers; Inventors;
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- Elon Musk [videorecording] : the real life Iron Man / by Wimmer, Per,on-screen participant.; Anderson-Ankenbrandt, Julie,on-screen participant.; Albers, Daniela,on-screen participant.; Anderson, Sonia,film producer,film director.; Vision Films (Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, Calif.),film distributor.;
Interviewees: Elon Musk, Per Wimmer, Julie Anderson-Ankenbrandt, Daniela Albers.This is one of the most inspiring entrepreneurial stories ever, and it may change the way viewers see the world. The man behind PayPal is taking on the giants of the auto, aerospace industries, oil corporations, energy utility companies and winning. Discover the meteoric rise of the man who revolutionized the Internet, jump-started the electric car industry with Tesla, created reusable space rockets with SpaceX and built the worlds largest solar energy plant.E.DVD, NTSC, region 0, widescreen (16x9); 5.1 & 2.0.- Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Musk, Elon.; Tesla Motors.; SpaceX (Firm); Businesspeople; Businesspeople;
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