[NatureNS] wind turbines

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If the prospect of downloading and reading a large book is daunting, you 
should know that the web site (www.withouthotair.com) also has a very 
readable 10-page synopsis of the book, with lots of visual material 
included.

Peter Payzant

On 2015-04-16 7:16 PM, Marg Millard wrote:
> will be looking for this. Thanks Steve! Marg Millard, White Point, Queens
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> A remarkable book that I came across that is both very readable and 
> with lots of pictures and graphs, and is full of feasibility 
> calculations made in an accessible way, and that I'd highly recommend 
> if you are interested in renewable and non-renewable energy sources is 
> by David J. C. MacKay "Sustainable Energy - without the hot air", 383 
> pages.   Download the PDF file, for free (!), from
> www.withouthotair.com
> the book file is an acronym, called sewtha.pdf, about 13.9MB.  My copy 
> is 2009 but he may update the file periodically, it says somewhere.  
> He's a Cambridge UK physicist and writes engagingly well in a quite 
> folksy manner. The numbers in the examples are taken mostly from UK, 
> but would probably apply largely to any developed country after 
> rescaling.
>
> http://MargMillard.ca
>
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