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Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air

David JC MacKay

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The best-selling book on understanding sustainable energy and how we can make energy plans that add up.

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''"... may be the best technical book about the environment that I've ever read. This is to energy and climate what Freakonomics is to economics."'' Read more ...
Cory Doctorow
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"The book is a tour de force ... As a work of popular science it is exemplary ... For anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the real problems involved [it] is the place to start." Read more ...
The Economist

"The first factual meme on renewable energy? A book about climate change that gets rave reviews from folk at oil companies, environmental groups and the Number One Blog of All Time has to be worth a peek."
energysource blog
The Financial Times

"This year's must-read book about tackling our future energy needs." Read more ...
The Guardian

"For anyone with influence on energy policy, whether in government, business or a campaign group, this book should be compulsory reading."
Tony Juniper (Former Executive Director, Friends of the Earth)

"At last a book that comprehensively reveals the true facts about sustainable energy in a form that is both highly readable and entertaining."
Robert Sansom (EDF Energy)

"MacKay brings a welcome dose of common sense into the discussion of energy sources and use. Fresh air replacing hot air."
Prof Mike Ashby Royal Society Research Professor, Principal Investigator, Engineering Design Centre, Cambridge

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Book details

title
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
publication date
2009
ISBN (paperback)
9780954452933
ISBN (hardback)
9781906860011
price
£19.95 (paperback)
£45.00 (hardback)
format (paperback)
223 mm high
195 mm wide
24 mm thick
format (hardback)
230 mm high
203 mm wide
27 mm thick
illustrations
throughout
pages
384
weight (paperback)
1000 g
weight (hardback)
1225 g
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