Dr. Tom Koppel is author of Powering the Future: The Ballard Fuel Cell and the Race to Change the Future, the story of a Canadian company's efforts to create a pollution-free alternative to the internal combustion engine. The award-winning freelance journalist followed the story of the Ballard fuel cell for more than 10 years, and first wrote about it for the Financial Post Magazine and Reader's Digest.
Powering the Future, his second book, was nominated for Canada¹s National Business Book of the Year Award in 2000. Koppel has contributed feature articles on business, science, history and travel to national magazines in Canada and the United States. He lives on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.
