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Synopsis
Addressing the
sustainable energy crisis in an objective manner, this enlightening book analyzes the relevant numbers and organizes a plan for change on both a personal level and an international scale - for Europe, the United States, and the world. In case study format, this informative reference answers questions surrounding nuclear energy, the potential of sustainable fossil fuels, and the possibilities of sharing renewable power with foreign countries. While underlining the difficulty of minimizing consumption, the tone remains positive as it debunks misinformation and clearly explains the calculations of expenditure per person to encourage people to make individual changes that will benefit the world at large. If you've thrown your hands up in despair thinking no solution is possible, then read this book - it's an honest, realistic, and humorous discussion of all our energy options.
About the author
David MacKay FRS was the Regius Professor of Engineering 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 was 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 was appointed a Lecturer in the Department of Physics at Cambridge in 1995 and was a Professor in the Department of Physics from 2003 to 2013. Since 2005, he devoted much of his time to public teaching about energy. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Nine months after the publication of 'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air', David MacKay was appointed Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
About the book
Category: popular science
Author: David JC MacKay FRS
Professor of Natural Philosophy,
Department of Physics,
University of Cambridge
Publisher: UIT
Publication date: 2nd December 2008 (UK)
1st May 2009 (USA)
Available in hardcover and paperback, 380 pages, full colour
ISBN: 9780954452933 / 978-1-906860-01-1
About the "free book" license
This is a free book. The author didn't write this book to make money. He wrote it because sustainable energy is important. If you would like to have the book for free for your own use, please help yourself to any of the electronic versions on
his website - withouthotair.com. There's pdf and html versions (thanks to William Sigmund!); we are working on other formats.
This is a free book in a second sense: you are free to use all the material in this book, except for the cartoons and the photos with a named photographer, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share-Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence. (The cartoons and photos are excepted because the authors have generally given permission only to include their work, not to share it under a Creative Commons license.) You are especially welcome to use the materials for educational purposes. The website includes links to separate high-quality files for each of the figures in the book.
This license does not allow you or anyone to print and
sell the book on amazon marketplace!
In response to generous readers...
If you enjoy the free electronic copy of the book and would like to make a financial donation, without buying the paper book for yourself, please may I suggest that you find a library or a school that would like a paper copy of the book, and buy it for them? Thank you!
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