David MacKay's book, Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air, is an absolutely stellar example of science writing about a topic of serious social value. To help make it more accessible I have taken the giant pdf file (Full Monty) and sectioned it off chapter by chapter to allow easier downloads and exploration.
The whole thing
Part I: Chapters
- Motivation
- Balance Sheet
- Cars
- Wind
- Planes
- Solar
- Heating/Cooling
- Hydroelectric
- Light
- Offshore Wind
- Gadgets
- Wave
- Food/Farming
- Tide
- Stuff
- Geothermal
- Public Services
- Can we do it?
Part II : Chapters
- Every Big
- Better Transport
- Smarter Heat
- Efficient Electricity
- Sustainable Fossil Fuels
- Nuclear
- Living off Others
- Storage
- Five Plans
- Costs
- What to do?
- Energy Plans U.S.
- ..Warming
- Saying Yes
- End Stuff