{"id":437,"date":"2011-02-24T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T08:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=437"},"modified":"2011-02-24T09:50:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T08:50:11","slug":"sustainable-energy-without-the-hot-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/02\/24\/sustainable-energy-without-the-hot-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Energy \u2013 without the hot air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This 383 page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.withouthotair.com\/\">book<\/a> by David JC MacKay is dedicated to \"those who will not have the benefits of two billion years' accumulated energy reserves\"; that is, to all those who, unwittingly, will follow us onto the Earth \u2013 the unborn and unbegot \u2013 and unaware.<\/p>\n<p>It begins: \"I'm concerned about cutting UK emissions of twaddle \u2013 twaddle about sustainable energy. ... Twaddle emissions are high at the moment because people get emotional ... and no one talks about numbers. \u00a0... \u00a0This is a straight-talking book about the numbers. \u00a0The aim is to guide the reader around the claptrap to actions that really make a difference and to policies that add up.\"<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I've not read it yet, but the (no cost) PDF is on the iPad. \u00a0Fewer blogs and more reading needed, perhaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 383 page book by David JC MacKay is dedicated to \"those who will not have the benefits of two billion years' accumulated energy reserves\"; that is, to all those who, unwittingly, will follow us onto the Earth \u2013 the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}