Manage Your Attention

“There are things that attract human attention, and there is often a huge gap between what is important and what is attractive and interesting." - Yuval Noah Harari
Observations of a Non-Scientist about Sustainable Living, Renewable Energy and the Power of the Sun.

Get Organized

WHEN SPIDERS UNITE THEY CAN TIE DOWN A LION.
-Ethiopian proverb

Save some for the next guy.


“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.”
- Mahatma Gandhi

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

David MacKay: A reality check on renewables | Video on TED.com

David MacKay: A reality check on renewables | Video on TED.com




How much land mass would renewables need to power a nation like the UK? An entire country's worth. In this pragmatic talk from TEDxWarwick, David MacKay tours the basic mathematics that show worrying limitations on our sustainable energy options and explains why we should pursue them anyway.

As an information theorist and computer scientist, David MacKay uses hard math to assess our renewable energy options.
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