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Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air

David JC MacKay

Categories: Popular Science

Table of Contents

Part I - Numbers, not adjectives

1 Motivations
2 The balance sheet
3 Cars
4 Wind
5 Planes
6 Solar
7 Heating and cooling
8 Hydroelectricity
9 Light
10 Offshore wind
11 Gadgets
12 Wave
13 Food and farming
14 Tide
15 Stuff
16 Geothermal
17 Public services
18 Can we live on renewables?

Part II - Making a difference

19 Every BIG helps
20 Better transport
21 Smarter heating
22 Efficient electricity use
23 Sustainable fossil fuels?
24 Nuclear?
25 Living on other countries' renewables?
26 Fluctuations and storage
27 Five energy plans for Britain
28 Putting costs in perspective
29 What to do now
30 Energy plans for Europe, America, and the World
31 The last thing we should talk about
Acknowledgments

Part III - Technical chapters

A Cars II
B Wind II
C Planes II
D Solar II
E Heating II
F Waves II
G Tide II
H Stuff II
I Storage II
J Carbon II
IV Useful data
K Terminology
L Populations and areas
M UK energy history
N Quick reference

List of web links
Bibliography
Index

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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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