David MacKay
Person on 4 sites
Physicist and information theorist at Cambridge; wrote Sustainable Energy — Without the Hot Air and was the UK's chief scientific adviser on energy from 2009…
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27 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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If everyone does only a little to help solve a big problem, the collective result will still be only a little. (opens korrents.com)
“A more realistic mantra is: if everyone does a little, we’ll achieve only a little.”
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Climate change is at its core an energy problem, since burning fossil fuels for energy is the main driver of emissions. (opens korrents.com)
“So to fix climate change, we need to sort out a new way of getting energy. The climate problem is mostly an energy problem.”
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Covering the windiest 10% of Britain with windmills could generate about 20 kWh per day per person, roughly half the energy used driving an average car 50 km a day. (opens korrents.com)
“if we covered the windiest 10% of the country with windmills (delivering 2 W/m2 ), we would be able to generate 20 kWh/d per person, which is half of the power used by driving an average fossil-fuel car 50 km per day.”
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If everyone does only a little to help solve a big problem, the collective result will still be only a little. (opens korrents.com)
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3 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change (opens rcmnd.app)
“I highly recommend the books Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change (Schellnhuber et al., 2006) and Global Climate Change (Dessler and Parson, 2006).”
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Global Climate Change (opens rcmnd.app)
“I highly recommend the books Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change (Schellnhuber et al., 2006) and Global Climate Change (Dessler and Parson, 2006).”
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Statistical Review of World Energy (opens rcmnd.app)
“there are many other helpful sources on the internet. I recommend, for example: BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy”
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Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change (opens rcmnd.app)