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the_elyanMany thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aiwendel for linking to something I read about late last year, and wanted to get hold of:
Sustainable Energy - Without The Hot Air
This is a book by a Cambridge physicist, which looks at different aspects of renewable energy, and different energy scenarios, and actually puts some serious numbers around them. In an age of hyperbolic statistics and emotive reporting, how welcome to find someone actually looking at what the possibilities actually mean.
What’s this book about?
I’m concerned about cutting UK emissions of twaddle – twaddle about
sustainable energy. Everyone says getting off fossil fuels is important, and
we’re all encouraged to "make a difference," but many of the things that
allegedly make a difference don’t add up.
Twaddle emissions are high at the moment because people get emotional
(for example about wind farms or nuclear power) and no-one talks
about numbers. Or if they do mention numbers, they select them to sound
big, to make an impression, and to score points in arguments, rather than
to aid thoughtful discussion.
This is a straight-talking book about the numbers. The aim is to guide
the reader around the claptrap to actions that really make a difference and
to policies that add up.
aiwendel for linking to something I read about late last year, and wanted to get hold of:Sustainable Energy - Without The Hot Air
This is a book by a Cambridge physicist, which looks at different aspects of renewable energy, and different energy scenarios, and actually puts some serious numbers around them. In an age of hyperbolic statistics and emotive reporting, how welcome to find someone actually looking at what the possibilities actually mean.
What’s this book about?
I’m concerned about cutting UK emissions of twaddle – twaddle about
sustainable energy. Everyone says getting off fossil fuels is important, and
we’re all encouraged to "make a difference," but many of the things that
allegedly make a difference don’t add up.
Twaddle emissions are high at the moment because people get emotional
(for example about wind farms or nuclear power) and no-one talks
about numbers. Or if they do mention numbers, they select them to sound
big, to make an impression, and to score points in arguments, rather than
to aid thoughtful discussion.
This is a straight-talking book about the numbers. The aim is to guide
the reader around the claptrap to actions that really make a difference and
to policies that add up.
