Tasty crunchy numbers! The Economist describes this book as "
geek heaven"; the author says he's just trying to cut UK's emissions of twaddle. David MacKay, a Cambridge physicist, wades into the data with a calculator and a touch of snark.
"Every big helps," he says, and he takes the reader on a fact-based hunt to find the places where "big" can
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The strange thing about it is that it has only one gear, so its neither automatic or manual. Flat torque across all rpm, tho. A very nice car to have.
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This one could kill the internal combustion engine.
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The very worst in the line-up is an absurd biodiesel-fueled "ecoboat" that sucks away 800 kWh per 100 passenger kilometers.
Personally I am convinced that America's lack of numeracy will be the undoing of us all. On the mitigation end, MacKay has some interesting notes on using pulverized rocks to suck up CO2, although someone will have to volunteer their entire country to provide the necessary surface area. In which case, thank god for China. In 10 years, I can totally see China declaring: "Floods + famines => BAD GDP. All good citizens, paint roofs and roads white NOW. All provinces with badlands suitable for pulverized rock, raise your hands."
If you read about the crazy shit that happened during the Great Leap Forward, China's execution capacity + the Virgin Earth Prize => ~3 degrees.
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