David J Mackay is a professor of physics at Cambridge University (UK). Frustrated by the abundance of biased and misleading statements about sustainable energy he has put himself to the task of getting the facts and the numbers right. Debunking myths and doing the hard work of getting the numbers right. Something that fits with our philosophy….
It has led to 500 pages of facts and figures, written in an easy style. You can buy the book or download the pdf for free. Mackay has even published (most of) the book under a Creative Commons License, allowing you to re-use most of his graphs and texts.
A Herculean job, a must read for anybody who is interested in facts and figures, even when you do not agree with all his examples and conclusions. Some of them are a bit simple and do not dig deep enough, some methods of comparing energy-efficiency may lead you easily to the wrong conclusions. (Just nit-picking…).
Anyway, a major and important effort to make the facts and figures accessible for everybody.
