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Article: Now We're Cooking With -- Batteries.(Project Green)
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- Newsweek
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- December 1, 2008
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Byline: Keith Naughton; With Patrick Crowley and Hilary Shenfeld
Electric storage is the weak link in a high-tech world. Fixing it could improve our lives--and the planet.
The energizer bunny is nowhere to be found inside the suburban Milwaukee research lab run by Johnson Controls. But all around the facility, behind signs marked DANGER: HIGH VOLTAGE, blue-coated workers are torturing a new generation of batteries, testing whether they, like the fuzzy commercial icon, can keep going -- and going. In one building, this work is done inside hulking Thermotron machines, which look like extras from the movie "Monsters, Inc."
Nesting inside are ...