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L'energie durable - pas que du vent!
On 13th December 2012, I helped launch the French translation of Sustainable Energy - without the hot air by giving a talk in Paris, hosted by the Ecole Normale Superieure and the kind volunteer...
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I've been unfair on Hydrogen
In Sustainable Energy - without the hot air I spent a couple of pages discussing hydrogen transportation, under the title "Hydrogen cars – blimp your ride". While I still think that some people have...
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David MacKay's "Map of the World" - an update
I've updated my "Map of the World"which shows, country by country, how human power-consumption per unit area compares with the power-production per unit area of renewables. I originally published this...
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Chinese translation of Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
The Chinese translation of Sustainable Energy - without the hot air is now available on amazon.cnI am very grateful to the Chinese Academy of Sciences and President Li Jinhai for arranging both the...
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Enormous solar power stations
Three spectacularly large solar power stations have recently been in the news: Ivanpah, located in California, but within spitting distance of Las Vegas, is a concentrating solar power station in which...
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Do UK wind farms decline "very dramatically" with age?
In December 2013, Christopher Booker in the Telegraph discusses a study by Gordon Hughes, published by the Renewable Energy Foundation in December 2012, which is said to show, due to wear and tear on...
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Turboprop update, and a Hot Air Oscar nomination
My attention was recently drawn to an impressively fuel-efficient turboprop aircraft, the ATR72-600, which is claimed to be about one third more energy efficient than Bombardier's Q400 turboprop,...
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Crowd-sourcing the IET's 2050 Pathway
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 are for the IET audience who are coming to the lecture. I'm...
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Energia sostenibile - senza aria fritta [Italian translation of Sustainable...
I'm very grateful to volunteers Alessandro Pastore, Javier Oca, Valentina Rossi, Alberto Marcone, Paolo Errani, and Simone Gallarini for completing the Italian translation of Sustainable Energy -...
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2014 Longitude Prize Flight Challenge
The aviation industry has made amazing progress. In just 111 years since the first controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flying-machine flew in North Carolina, innovators and industry have produced a...
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2014 Longitude Prize Water Challenge
Clean water is crucial not only for humans' direct use but also for agriculture. Attention often focuses on drinking water, but agriculture is far bigger. Let's put it in numbers. How much drinkable...
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Embodied energy in a car - update under way
John Biggins sent me a helpful email querying a number in my book's chapter on "Stuff". I have a question about the embedded energy in a car, which you quote at 76000kWh. That seems awfully high to me....
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Shale gas in perspective
How would the footprint of a shale gas operation compare with the footprint of other ways of delivering a similar quantity of energy?There are many dimensions to a "footprint". In this blog post, I'll...
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Solar power from space?
When I published Sustainable Energy - without the hot air, there were quite a few topics I could have included but didn't because they seemed a little too blue-sky. For example I have draft chapters on...
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Oxford's 2050 Pathway (created 2014-15)
I'm giving the Charles Simonyi Annual Lecture tonight (14 November 2014) and during my talk about Why climate change action is difficult, and how we can make a difference, I will mention the 2050...
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Underfloor insulation - thinking about the business case
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 house - the floor. (image kindly supplied by...
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Offshore wind farm load factors
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 the raw data, which is available from the helpful REF website....
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Some SEWTHA updates (video, html, and hype)
Three pieces of news... 1: Updated SEWTHA video There is a new release of my 2010 "Sustainable Energy - without the hot air" lecture at Caltech which includes close-captioning. Thank you, CMU, for...
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2016 Breakthrough Paradigm Award!
I've been awarded the 2016 Breakthrough Paradigm Award -- here is the nice letter I received from Shellenberger and Nordhaus: We are pleased to inform you that you have been awarded the 2016...
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How to design climate negotiations: use the science of cooperation!
Price Carbon – I will if you will David J C MacKay FRS, Peter Cramton, Axel Ockenfels, and Steven Stoft Nature Vol 526 Page 315-316 | 15 October 2015 I think this is the most important piece of...
View ArticleA new video explaining our "EddingtonSafety" petition for Safer Walking and...
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