Book by Sam Kirsch

Electricity Out of Thin Air

And Fourteen Other Technologies Quietly Rewriting Our Future

The next energy revolution will not announce itself with a headline. It is already happening, quietly, in labs most people have never heard of. Electricity Out of Thin Air takes you inside the strange, brilliant, unglamorous science rewriting what is possible: bacteria that generate electricity from humidity, concrete that stores power like a battery, iron-air batteries built for the long haul.

Chapter by chapter it introduces the researchers and breakthroughs quietly assembling the next decade of clean technology, and makes the case for why paying attention now matters more than waiting for the finished product. Written for curious readers, not specialists, it is proof that the future is being built in pieces, and some of those pieces are already working.