{"id":1694,"date":"2009-04-16T13:10:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T00:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2009-04-16T15:42:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T02:42:45","slug":"recommended-book-sustainable-energy-without-the-hot-air-by-david-mackay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1694","title":{"rendered":"Recommended book: Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air by David MacKay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-left:10px;float:right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.withouthotair.com\/download.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.withouthotair.com\/images\/cover140.gif\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>He&#8217;s trying to get people to think (and talk) rationally, rather than emotionally, about energy consumption &#038; production. He gives lots of useful rules of thumb for figuring out the possible contribution of various forms of energy generation. He&#8217;s fighting against the &#8216;every little bit counts&#8217; mentality that is careful about turning off cellphone chargers but has nothing to say about (say) urban form. He&#8217;s trying to provide the mental tools for people to get a handle on their own consumption, the bigger context (in the UK at least), and confidence to decide between conflicting and confusing claims like these: &#8220;The UK has the best wind resources in Europe&#8221; (Sustainable Development Commission). &#8220;Wind farms will devastate the countryside pointlessly&#8221; (James Lovelock).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.withouthotair.com\/download.html\">Get it for free here<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s trying to get people to think (and talk) rationally, rather than emotionally, about energy consumption &#038; production. He gives lots of useful rules of thumb for figuring out the possible contribution of various forms of energy generation. He&#8217;s fighting against the &#8216;every little bit counts&#8217; mentality that is careful about turning off cellphone chargers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}