Can We Build Tomorrow's Breakthroughs?

Technology Review (Dec 19 2011) Solar

1. Manufacturing in the United States is in trouble. That's bad news not just for the country's economy but for the future of innovation. In a hangarlike building where General Electric once assembled steam turbines, a $100 million battery manufacturing facility is being constructed to make products using a chemistry never before commercialized on such a large scale. The sodium–metal halide batteries it will produce have been tested and optimized over the last few years by a team of materials scientists and engineers at GE's sprawling research center just a few miles away. Now some of the same researchers are responsible for reproducing those results in a production facility large enough to hold three and a half football fields. (Read Full Article)

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