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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 arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.
— David J. C. MacKay
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When the Industrial Revolution started, the amount of carbon sitting underneath Britain in the form of coal was as big as the amount of carbon sitting under Saudi Arabia in the form of oil, and this carbon powered the Industrial Revolution, it put the 'Great' in Great Britain, and led to Britain's temporary world domination.
— David J. C. MacKay
Tags: big, industrial-revolution, world, great
Electric cars are really very cool. Air-source heat pumps are great.
— David J. C. MacKay
Tags: really, heat, great, cool
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 fact.
— David J. C. MacKay
Tags: small, live, power, love
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