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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #36 The Calculator that Could Save the World
Description: How a calculator is helping countries around the world to
lower their greenhouse gas emissions and create more sustainable energy
systems.
When Professor David MacKay of Cambridge University wrote a
book about sustainable energy in 2009, he could not have realised that this
groundbreaking text would go on to form the basis for a calculator that could
save the world from climate catastrophe. By investigating the true impact of
energy demand and supply on carbon emissions he provided much needed
transparency on the link between energy and the climate. Today his calculator
has spread throughout the world from...