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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Recent reviews in the press

... 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.
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.
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.
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)

Author Display Name: 
David JC MacKay
Edition Number: 
1
Publication Date: 
02/12/2008
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David MacKay is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge. He studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge and then obtained his PhD in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology. He returned to Cambridge as a Royal Society research fellow at Darwin College. He is internationally known for his research in machine learning, information theory, and communication systems, including the invention of Dasher, a software interface that enables efficient communication in any language with any muscle. He has taught Physics in Cambridge since 1995. Since 2005, he has devoted much of his time to public teaching about energy. He is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Climate Change.

Last updated: 2010-04-30

Endorsements for Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air

Peter Ainsworth MP
Shadow Secretary of State, for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs

… engagingly written, packed with useful information, and refreshingly factual.

Michael Meacher MP
Former Minister of State for the Environment

So much uninformed rhetoric is thrown about on climate change and energy systems that there is an urgent need for an authoritative study setting out just what can and cannot realistically be done to achieve sustainable energy. This hugely important book fills that gap both technically and highly readably. It should be a 'must read' not only at home and in industry, but on each Government Minister's desk, and not just in the UK.

Professor Sir David King
Director, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford

This remarkable book from an expert in the energy field sets out, with enormous clarity and objectivity, the various alternative low carbon pathways that are open to us. Policy makers, researchers, private sector decision makers, and NGOs, all will benefit from these words of wisdom.

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