{"id":554,"date":"2009-05-06T11:53:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T11:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starstrewnsky.net\/satellite\/?p=554"},"modified":"2012-09-06T11:54:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T11:54:35","slug":"sustainable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/starstrewnsky.net\/satellite\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"Without the hot air"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you get annoyed by vague ‘area the size of Wales’ statistics then ‘Without hot air’<\/a> is well worth a read.\u00a0 Professor David Mackay has done the calculations and provides detailed models for how Britain could become sustainable in terms of energy production and consumption.<\/p>\n

There is lots of useful information in the book, all of it with a practical and pragmatic perspective.<\/p>\n

Don’t kid yourself that you can stop at switching your phone charger off and think you are doing your bit for the environment, for instance:<\/p>\n

“All the energy saved in switching off your charger for one day
\nis used up in one second of car-driving.<\/p>\n

The energy saved in switching off the charger for one year is
\nequal to the energy in a single hot bath.”<\/p>\n

Read it online here<\/a><\/p>\n

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