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In this section we include details of Lectures, Papers, and Books on developments in the energy field, the first being :-

• ‘Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air’, by David Mackay

This is a thought provoking book covering many of the challenges we face on the national and international, energy front.

David Mackay is Professor of Natural Philosophy, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

The opening theme of the book is “numbers, not adjectives”.

The following links are

• 4 page Synopsis
• MagicPoint Presentation of the foils
• Draft text of the Book (380 plus pages)

If you can’t open a .ps file to see David’s 4 page Executive Summary/Synopsis, go to http://www.withouthotair.com where you will be able to find the summary as a pdf file. I’d also recommend you follow his link to the item about ‘phone chargers!

Please see the News Flash at the beginning of the “Polynous-International” section.

Peter Wadhams, Sc.D., Professor of Ocean Physics, University of Cambridge recommends the following book

Global Warming-The Complete Briefing, by John Houghton

Air Transport

A recent Royal Aeronautical Society Lecture was entitled “The Optimum Aeroplane and Beyond”.

It was given by Prof. Ian Poll, and the associated web-site can be found at www.omega.mmu.ac.uk

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