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VIDEO: L'energie durable - pas que du vent - David MacKay lectures in Paris, December 2012 - English with French subtitles

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Sequels, further appendices, and open source extensions of the book

What's new: French translation now available from booksellers! [July 2012] What's new: [January 2012] David MacKay's blog-post about Version 3 of the DECC 2050 Pathways Calculator What's new: German data-translation [1st December 2011] What's new: Hungarian translation [28th October 2011] What's new: French translation [11th October 2011] What's new: Polish translation ISBN 978-83-923848-1-6 [October 2011] What's new: SEWTHA is still a best-seller [December 2010] BookScan's 2010 list of best-selling environment and ecology books in the UK features SEWTHA in the top ten this year (2nd), and the top ten (8th) of all time. Read more.

What's new: Japanese translation [November 2010] 持続可能なエネルギー—「数値」で見るその可能性 [単行本] translated by Katsunori Muraoka What's recent: index I've added an alphabetical index to the html version of the book. extensions There's a link to a new Australian Sustainable Energy document on the Translations-and-extensions page translations A translation of the synopsis into Dutch, provided by Delft Energy Initiative, is on the Translations-and-extensions page. There's also a translation into French (added Sept 2010).

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