We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
The discussion about energy options tends to be an intensely emotional, polarised, mistrustful, and destructive one. Every option is strongly opposed: the public seem to be anti-wind, anti-coal, anti-waste-to-energy, anti-tidal-barrages, anti-carbon-tax, and anti-nuclear. — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
Electric cars are really very cool. Air-source heat pumps are great. — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
Fridges can be modified to nudge their internal thermostats up and down just a little in response to the main's frequency in such a… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
Solving climate change is a complex topic, but in a single crude brush-stroke, here is the solution: the price of carbon dioxide must be… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do you use at home?' And I… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
If all the ineffective ideas for solving the energy crisis were laid end to end, they would reach to the moon and back — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
Fusion power is speculative and experimental. I think it is reckless to assume that the fusion problem will be cracked, but I'm happy to… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
When the Industrial Revolution started, the amount of carbon sitting underneath Britain in the form of coal was as big as the amount of… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
The United States consumes power per land-area at a rate three times the average. Even though they are more energy efficient, densely populated industrial… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous.… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
