Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air

Bill Gates CEO/MicrosoftIf someone wants an overall view of how energy gets used, where it comes from, and the challenges in switching to new sources, this is the book to read. (Source)

Chris Goodall What the late David MacKay did was give us a rigorous understanding of the way that we use and generate energy. (Source)

Richard Betts @mark_lynas @nmrqip @ClimateAudit @Revkin @BillGates @UCSUSA @theCCCuk @rahmstorf Interesting that you think that. Maybe like Steve you encounter a vocal subset. I know many who are not anti-nuclear, especially since (a) Lovelock started talking about it (including at a Gaia meeting in Dartington in the mid-2000s) & (b) David Mackay published his famous book. (Source)

John Shepherd MacKay does very simple, back-of-the-envelope sums, as to how much energy could we get from bio-fuels, how much energy could we get from wind power, how much land would it take? (Source)

Juliet Davenport This is a fantastic piece of work to start people thinking about sustainable energy in a wider debate rather than just amongst scientists. (Source)