"It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner…" — David J. C. MacKay
"It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us."
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13 Quotes by David J. C. MacKay
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The bottom line in 2007 is that enrollment costs are going up substantially, drug coverage is declining and the brand…
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In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder
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If all the ineffective ideas for solving the energy crisis were laid end to end, they would reach to the…
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The discussion about energy options tends to be an intensely emotional, polarised, mistrustful, and destructive one. Every option is strongly…
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I would like to help people have honest and constructive conversations about energy. We need to understand how much energy…
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Solving climate change is a complex topic, but in a single crude brush-stroke, here is the solution: the price of…
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The United States consumes power per land-area at a rate three times the average. Even though they are more energy…
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All renewables, much as I love them, are diffuse. They all have a small power per unit area, and we…
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I was distressed by the poor quality of the debate surrounding energy. I was also noticing so much green wash…
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Most of physics is about energy, and physicists understand inefficiencies. I wanted to write a book about our energy options…
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The amount of energy saved by switching off the phone charger is exactly the same as the energy used by…
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Electric cars are really very cool. Air-source heat pumps are great.
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