Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air - Energy Leadership Lecture by David MacKay

An Energy Leadership Lecture presented by the Institute for Energy Efficiency at UCSB. David MacKay FRS studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge and then obtained his PhD in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology. 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 (DECC). KITP Colloquia and Special Seminars April 6, 2010 __________________________________ Learn more at: https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/ Follow @KITP_UCSB for updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kitp_ucsb __________________________________ The position of the KITP is that ownership and copyright of all online material -- slides, text, audio, video, and podcasts -- belongs to the author. KITP is providing dissemination for these materials but does not claim ownership. Any person citing these materials for scholarly purposes should provide an appropriate scholarly reference.