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A Heart of the New Machine for our time, a gripping bill of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technology A worldwide race is to perfect another engine of financial growth, the advanced lithium-ion power. It will force the electric car, reduce global warming, and catapult the success into a new era of financial and political mastery. Can america win? Steve LeVine was awarded unprecedented usage of a secret federal government lab outside Chicago, where a group of geniuses is wanting to resolve this next monumental activity of physics. But these scientists - almost all foreign given birth to - aren't together. With so much at stake, researchers in Japan, South Korea, and China are in the same pursuit. The episode intensifies whenever a Silicon Valley start-up licenses the federal government laboratory's signature invention with the aim of a blockbuster sales to the world's biggest carmakers. The Powerhouse is a real-time, two-year thrilling bill of big invention, big commercialization, and big deception. It exposes the levels of competition and ambition, aspiration and disappointment behind this great making point in the history of technology.