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David MacKay
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- 1Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air still resonates●Sustainable energy without the hot air (2008)
David MacKay's 2008 book 'Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air' is drawing renewed attention online. The freely available text lays out the arithmetic of Britain's energy use and the realistic options for decarbonising, using plain numbers rather than slogans. Readers are revisiting its sober assessment of how much land, wind, solar and nuclear capacity would be needed to replace fossil fuels, and debating how its conclusions hold up today.
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'Without the Hot Air' refers to David MacKay's well-known book 'Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air', which is freely available at withouthotair.com. The site provides free access to the book's analysis of energy consumption and renewable energy potential in Britain, with clear numbers rather than rhetoric. It is drawing renewed attention online, with readers sharing and discussing the resource.