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About the author
David MacKay FRS is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the
University of Cambridge. He studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge and then
obtained his PhD in Computation and Neural Systems at the California
Institute of Technology. He returned to Cambridge as a Royal Society
research fellow at Darwin College. He is internationally known for his
research in machine learning, information theory, and communication systems,
including the invention of Dasher, a software interface that enables
efficient communication in any language with any muscle. He has taught
Physics in Cambridge since 1995. Since 2005, he has devoted much of
his time to public teaching about energy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society
and a member of the World
Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Climate Change.
Nine months after the publication of 'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air',
David MacKay was appointed Chief Scientific Advisor to the
Department of Energy and Climate Change.
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About the book
Category: | popular science |
Author: | David JC MacKay FRS
Professor of Natural Philosophy,
Department of Physics,
University of Cambridge |
Publisher: |
UIT |
Publication date: |
2nd December 2008 (UK)
1st May 2009 (USA)
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Available in hardback and paperback, 380 pages,
full colour
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ISBN: |
9780954452933 / 978-1-906860-01-1
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About the "free book" license
This is a free book.
I didn't write this book to make money.
I wrote it because sustainable energy is important.
If you would like to have the book for free for your own use,
please help yourself to any of the electronic versions on this website.
There's pdf and html versions (thanks to William Sigmund!); we are working
on other formats.
This is a free book in a second sense:
you are free to use all the material in this book,
except for the cartoons and the photos with a named
photographer, under the
Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share-Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence.
(The cartoons and photos are excepted
because the authors have generally given me permission only to
include their work, not to share it under a
Creative Commons license.)
You are especially welcome to use
my materials for educational purposes.
This website includes links to separate high-quality files for each of the
figures in the book.
A note to pirates,
this license does not allow you or anyone
to print and sell the book on amazon marketplace!
[Further information about pirates, & photographs]
In response to generous readers...
If you enjoy the free electronic copy of the book and would like
to make a financial donation, without buying the paper book for yourself,
please may I suggest that you find a library or a school that would like
a paper copy of the book, and buy it for them?
Thank you!
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