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Sustainable Energy – without the hot air (2008) (withouthotair.com)
2 points by imichael on Dec 12, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



This is an excellent resource I cannot recommend highly enough. MacKay's death in 2016 was a tragedy to the UK and world.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._C._MacKay>

There are numerous videos of him presenting on the book as well which might be useful to some:

1h6m: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=GFosQtEqzSE>

37 minutes: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8YBgKUovxKc>

Nuclear Energy Institute presentation, broken into ~15 minute segments:

Part 1: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=5mpkYG5Km6g>

Part 2: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=5404N4mjhPU>

Part 3: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=lXCgO9W2b8A>

Part 4: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ZMcPYklQYuE>

Part 5 (Q&A): <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7wpwViD5QDc>


David Mackay would be appalled to see the climate change deniers that have fixated on a motivated misreading of his book. A stark warning of how "lets just stick to the numbers and facts" collides with billion dollar disinformation campaigns.




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