Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

BendiBus

Bought a book yesterday with the above title.

It's available online for free at http://www.withouthotair.com/

It's written by a physicist (Prof. David MacKay of Cambridge University) and he puts actual numbers to both production & consumption of energy in all its forms. I've only read the intro & chapter 1 so far but it's very interesting already. And very readable for the work of a physicist.

I thought if might be a useful reference to anyone here debating the merits of one solution over another as there are countless facts, figures & references.

He also has a very eye-opening video on YouTube which gives a good idea of his pretty no-nonsense approach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRQB2YXUxvY

Has anyone else read this book already?

Macha

No but I heard him talk at Trinity week a few weeks ago:

http://www.tcd.ie/trinityweek/wednesday/

He was very good.

There was also an article about him in the Irish Times, I think in the Innovation supplement.

greener&leaner

I caught the last minute of his talk last week, and the rest of that day.
Brilliant day so it was.

I bought the book too. About a third of the way through it now. It's fascinating, especially if like me you like to play with numbers.

I'm twiddling around with adjusting some of the numbers for Ireland, and I'll probably try to stick it in a blog post at some point.

Definitely worth the read.