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Re:The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change by ThePhysicist on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @11:50AM (#9765442)
As others have already pointed out, the article contains a lot of handwaving arguments and seemingly inaccurate claims.

So, for anyone interested in a more thorough and quantitative discussion of the problem I highly recommend David MacKay's book "Sustainable Energy - Without The Hot Air", which is available for free online:

http://www.withouthotair.com/

It contains detailed discussions of many of the problems that we would face when shifting our energy production to renewable sources and decentralizing it, and he provides a lot of data and calculations to give you a feeling of how to overcome them.

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Re:The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change by cossatot on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @02:12PM (#9766508)
This is an excellent book, very well reason, quantitative, and clearheaded. I do wish it was a little less UK focused (I have the same problem with many books that are US focused; it's a world problem and leaving out the BRICs is missing a lot of the story).
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