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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #137 The Calculator that Could Still Save the World
Description: Two years ago the world was preparing for COP25 in Madrid, and we released this episode (#36) about a calculator that was helping countries around the world to lower their greenhouse gas emissions and create more sustainable energy systems.
Just as relevant now as it was then, and for the benefit of newer listeners, we are re-running the episode this week.
When Professor David MacKay of Cambridge University wrote a book about sustainable energy in 2009, he could not have realised that this ground-breaking text would go on to form the basis for a calculator that could...