可持续能源：事实而非空谈
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
David J.C. MacKay · 初版 2008 年
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为什么值得读
- 完全基于真实数字开展一阶定量理性推演
- 严谨核算碳排放限制与实际能源需求的平衡
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概述了正在威胁全球自然资源的可持续能源危机，解释了能源消耗是如何被估算的以及这些数字是如何受到各种因素影响而失真的，并探讨了可以且应该使用的替代能源形式。
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《别闹了，费曼先生》。D. MacKay：《Sustainable energy - without the hot air》。N. Taleb：《Fooled by randomness》。M. Karinthy：《A journey round my skull》。
Surely you are joking, Mr. Feynman. D. MacKay: Sustainable energy - without the hot air. N. Taleb: Fooled by randomness. M. Karinthy: A journey round my skull.
……比如太阳能电池板、地源打井热泵、工业余热等。这些是世界上很多地方都在使用的成熟技术。欲了解更多信息，我推荐 MacKay 的大作《Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air》（在 withouthotair.com 可免费下载 pdf）。
…such as solar panels, heat pumps with ground drilling, industrial heat waste, etc. These are standard technologies being used in large parts of the world. For more info I recommend the excellent book Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air by MacKay (pdf freely available at withouthotair.com).
……车辆像现在这样。如果你对这类问题感兴趣，我强烈推荐我几天前买的下面这本书。我觉得它既发人深省又令人兴奋：http://www.amazon.com/Sustainable-Energy-Without-Hot-Air/dp/...
…vehicles as they get now. If you're interested in these sort of questions, I highly recommend the following book which I got a few days ago. I'm finding it both sobering and exciting: http://www.amazon.com/Sustainable-Energy-Without-Hot-Air/dp/...
David MacKay 的《Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air》给出了对比多种不同储能形式的详实数据：http://www.inference.eng.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/。这是一位物理学家以“务实求真”的工程视角对我们的能源选择进行的审视。……
David Mackay's "Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air" has good numbers comparing many different forms of energy storage: http://www.inference.eng.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/. It's a "hard-headed" engineering look at our energy options written by a physicist.…
David MacKay 的《Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air》
David MacKay's Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
作者 Hannah Ritchie 在 Our World In Data 工作，还出版精彩的 Sustainability by Numbers substack。这和已故伟大的 David MacKay 的《Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air》一脉相承。这个工具最近有自己的 substack 文章。也看看评论，尤其是 Chris Preist 那条，它把流媒体视频的能耗放到了背景中（这个话题也在……讨论过）
The author Hannah Ritchie works on Our World In Data and also publishes the fantastic Sustainability by Numbers substack. It's in the same vein as the late, great David MacKay's Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air. This tool has its own recent substack post. See the comments too, especially the one by Chris Preist that contextualizes the energy usage of streaming video (a topic that has also been discussed on…