Magnesium - Key Material to Energy and Environment

Have you ever heard about “magnesium fuel cell”? Have you ever heard about “magnesium recycling society”? You do not need to be ashamed if you do not know these because these words are Yabe’s creation. Yabe started the project described in this book, shocked by the fact that current technologies, like solar cell, wind power, hydrogen fuel, bio-fuel, including various batteries, cannot save our planet as you realize after reading this book. His answer to this subject, energy and environment, is magnesium which exists in ocean by the amount of 1,800,000,000,000,000 tons, correspond to 100,000-years oil consumption. Several topics described in this book are : rechargeable EV is not environmental friendly, magnesium fuel cell does not need charging and is only hope for EV, magnesium battery can fly drones for hours, , magnesium fuel can be recycled by laser, special desalination device can save our planet from desertification and so on. Magnesium fuel cell, fuel recycle, and extraction of magnesium from ocean by desalination device are no more in a level of dream but are actual products that will soon appear in the market. Please enjoy a new magnesium world.

Takashi Yabe is now Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 1999, he was invited to give a bicentenary memorial lecture at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. In 2009, he was chosen as Heroes of the Environment, in TIME magazine.