Energy Security
“Sometimes people ask me, ‘Surely we used to live on renewables just fine before the industrial revolution?’ Yes, but don’t forget that two things were different then: lifestyles and population densities”
David J C Mackay, Professor of Physics, Cambridge University1
Footnotes
- ‘Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air’ [↩]
Subpages in This Section
- The Challenge
- The National Energy Picture: where our energy comes from at the moment
- How We Use Energy
- The coming energy gap
- Renewable Energy
- Managing the National Grid, Fluctuating Supplies, Seasons & Storage
- Energy Demand & Supply in Totnes & District
- Fuel Poverty in Devon
- Zero Carbon Britain?
- Imported Energy
- Managing a global carbon budget – Energy Rationing
- Energy Efficiency
- Business as Usual or Willing to Change? – Emerging Trends – Where We Are Now
- Vision 2030
- Resilience Indicators
- Pathways across the timeline 2009-2030
- Transition in Action: The Totnes Renewable Energy Supply Company (TRESOC)
- Key References and Further Reading
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