Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air with David MacKay

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as an approachable, numbers-driven overview of what renewable energy would take.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Harvard University

Topic

sustainable energy

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2015–2017

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From the original HN conversations

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• I felt the 'area needed in the US' to be a bit disingenuous. I very much recommend David Mackay's Without the Hot Air, a great talk he did at Harvard on area required can be found here: [VIDEO] Beyond that, very glad to see this …

• I recently started reading "Sustainable Energy Without The Hot Air"[1], which is available as a free book, and it's been a wonderful introduction to reasoning about alternative energy. The author also gave a talk a few years ago that is very approachable[2]. [1] [LINK] [2] …

• If you haven't read Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air , by David Mackay, I recommend it. Free download: [LINK] About the author: David MacKay FRS is the Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge and then …