David J. C. MacKay Quotes

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• The bottom line in 2007 is that enrollment costs are going up substantially, drug coverage is declining and the brand name coverage in the doughnut…
• In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder
• If all the ineffective ideas for solving the energy crisis were laid end to end, they would reach to the moon and back
• It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us.
• 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…
• I would like to help people have honest and constructive conversations about energy. We need to understand how much energy our modern lifestyles use, decide…
• 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 such…
• 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 countries…
• All renewables, much as I love them, are diffuse. They all have a small power per unit area, and we have to live with that…
• I was distressed by the poor quality of the debate surrounding energy. I was also noticing so much green wash from politicians and big business.…
• Most of physics is about energy, and physicists understand inefficiencies. I wanted to write a book about our energy options in a neutral, human-accessible form.
• The amount of energy saved by switching off the phone charger is exactly the same as the energy used by driving an average car for…
• Electric cars are really very cool. Air-source heat pumps are great.

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