Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
David JC MacKay
The best-selling book on understanding sustainable energy and how we can make energy plans that add up.
How to buy
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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
boingboing.net
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)
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.
