Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

Saturday, October 31, 2015

All five EddingtonSafety videos in one playlist

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Friday, October 30, 2015

EddingtonSafety - Part 4: Comparison of Huntingdon Road with similar maj...

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People who care about Cambridge, Please sign our petition and share with friends - http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/EddingtonSafety T...

EddingtonSafety 3 - the Bunker's Hill / Girton Road Crossing

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Please sign our petition http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/EddingtonSafety and forward this to friends, especially if you have Cambridge ...

EddingtonSafety Part 2 - Detailed problems and solutions for the Hunting...

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Please sign our petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/EddingtonSafety
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

A new video explaining our "EddingtonSafety" petition for Safer Walking and Cycling near North West Cambridge

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Please sign our petition at www.ipetitions.com/petition/EddingtonSafety - for further information, see: tinyurl.com/EddingtonSafety
Sunday, October 11, 2015

How to design climate negotiations: use the science of cooperation!

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Price Carbon – I will if you will David J C MacKay FRS, Peter Cramton, Axel Ockenfels, and Steven Stoft N...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

2016 Breakthrough Paradigm Award!

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I've been awarded the 2016 Breakthrough Paradigm Award -- here is the nice letter I received from Shellenberger and Nordhaus:   ...
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Sunday, August 30, 2015

Some SEWTHA updates (video, html, and hype)

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Three pieces of news... 1: Updated SEWTHA video There is a new release of my 2010 "Sustainable Energy - without the hot air"...
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Monday, August 3, 2015

Offshore wind farm load factors

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I heard that recently-built UK offshore wind farms have higher load factors than old wind farms. I thought it would be interesting to plot...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Underfloor insulation - thinking about the business case

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Having had a go at the walls, the windows, the roof, and air-tightness, I've decided to get the last physical improvement done to our ...
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Friday, November 14, 2014

Oxford's 2050 Pathway (created 2014-15)

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I'm giving the Charles Simonyi Annual Lecture tonight (14 November 2014) and during my talk about Why climate change action is diffic...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Solar power from space?

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When I published Sustainable Energy - without the hot air , there were quite a few topics I could have included but didn't because the...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Shale gas in perspective

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How would the footprint of a shale gas operation compare with the footprint of other ways of delivering a similar quantity of energy? Th...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014

Embodied energy in a car - update under way

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John Biggins sent me a helpful email querying a number in my book's chapter on "Stuff" . I have a question about the embed...
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Monday, June 23, 2014

2014 Longitude Prize Water Challenge

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Clean water is crucial not only for humans' direct use but also for agriculture. Attention often focuses o...
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2014 Longitude Prize Flight Challenge

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The aviation industry has made amazing progress. In just 111 years since the first controlled, powered, heavier...
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Saturday, May 24, 2014

Energia sostenibile - senza aria fritta [Italian translation of Sustainable Energy - without the hot air!]

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I'm very grateful to volunteers Alessandro Pastore, Javier Oca, Valentina Rossi, Alberto Marcone, Paolo Errani, and Simone Gallarini...
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Saturday, February 22, 2014

Crowd-sourcing the IET's 2050 Pathway

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I am giving the Clerk Maxwell Lecture for the IET on 6 March 2014 at the Royal Institution, London, UK. This post and its discussion area ...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Turboprop update, and a Hot Air Oscar nomination

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My attention was recently drawn to an impressively fuel-efficient turboprop aircraft, the ATR72-600 , which is claimed to be about...
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Do UK wind farms decline "very dramatically" with age?

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In December 2013, Christopher Booker in the Telegraph discusses a study by Gordon Hughes, published by the Renewable Energy Foundation in ...
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Monday, November 18, 2013

Enormous solar power stations

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Three spectacularly large solar power stations have recently been in the news: Ivanpah , located in California, but within spitting distanc...
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Monday, October 14, 2013

Chinese translation of Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

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The Chinese translation of Sustainable Energy - without the hot air is now available on amazon.cn I am very grateful to the Chinese Ac...
Sunday, June 9, 2013

David MacKay's "Map of the World" - an update

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I've updated my "Map of the World" which shows, country by country, how human power-consumption per unit area compares with...
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Monday, April 8, 2013

I've been unfair on Hydrogen

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In Sustainable Energy - without the hot air I spent a couple of pages discussing hydrogen transportation, under the title "Hydrogen ...
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Friday, December 14, 2012

L'energie durable - pas que du vent!

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On 13th December 2012, I helped launch the French translation of Sustainable Energy - without the hot air by giving a talk in Paris, ho...
Thursday, August 2, 2012

Personal energy calculator online

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Christian Gebbe has made a nice Personal Energy Estimator based on Sustainable Energy - without the hot air . All the key numbers are ad...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Sun spots and temperature

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I love data! Here is an animation showing the evolution of global temperature and the number of sunspots over the last 129 years. And ...
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Thursday, March 29, 2012

TEDx talk: People, Power, Area

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- how the laws of Physics constrain our sustainable energy options TEDx Warwick 2012 (18 minutes). [ Original slides are also available he...
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