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λ 307
13 amps 50

747 132
1698 6, 19
1769 6
1910 7
1979 20
2050 203

A380 132
AA battery 89
absolution 3
academics 293
accelerator-driven system 166
action 203
addiction 203
Adelman 40
advertisement 72, 154
advertising standards authority 126
advocating acts of consumption 4
aerodynamic efficiency 273
agricultural waste 206
air
 -  energy consumption 92
 -  hot 51
air changes 289, 296
air resistance 118
air travel
 -  neutralization 211
air-conditioning 52, 144, 151
 -  in vehicles 131
air-source heat pump 52, 151, 205, 212
Airbus 132
Aircar 129
aircraft 132
 -  turboprop 35
aircraft carriers 220
airship 280
albatross 272, 273
albedo flip 243
Albert Hall 332
alchemy 88
algae 284, 285, 288
 -  biofuel 285
 -  hydrogen 285
Algeria 177, 338
alkaline battery
 -  energy density 199
Alps 209
altitude 272
altruism 5
aluminium 89, 97, 325
 -  can 89
 -  embodied energy 94
 -  Iceland 183
always on 96
America 21, 93, 338
American 104, 234
Amonix 182
amplifier 70
amps 50
analogy 24
Andasol 178, 184
answering machine 70
any colour 122
apple 259
Aptera 137
Aquamarine Power Ltd 310
area 55, 332
 -  frontal 119
area per person 32, 338-341
Arizona 182, 236, 285
arms exports 220
Artemis Intelligent Power 125
artificial trees 249
Atkinson cycle 136
Atlantic 73, 309
Atlantic Ocean
 -  tides 81
 -  waves 74
atmosphere 10
Atoms for Peace 133
Ausra 184
Australia 338
automobile, see car
average travel 30
average windspeeds 32

B&Q 66
Bad Thing 10
Baer 15
bag of crisps 80
bailing the Titanic 68
balloon 280
Bangladesh 338
bar fire 51
bar-tailed godwit 277
Barbados 230
barium titanate 199
barley 286
barrel of oil 331
bath 50, 51
bathymetry 61
battery 89, 137, 205
 -  efficiency 202
 -  energy density 199, 261
 -  lithium-sulphur 202
 -  nickel-cadmium 89
 -  rechargeable 94
battery charging 197
battery exchange 261
Bavaria 41, 48, 216
BBC 68, 71
beach 307
Beatrice 64, 66
Beaufort scale 263
Bedford 55
beef 77
Belgium 21, 208
Berlingo 127
Betz 264
bicycle 119, 128, 258, 264
billiard ball 81
billion 11, 217, 329
 -  nuclear decommissioning 175
biodiesel 42, 204
 -  from algae 285
bioethanol 205
 -  from corn 284
 -  from sugar beet 283
 -  from sugar cane 284
biofuel 42, 78, 283
 -  cellulosic ethanol 284
 -  from algae 285
 -  from corn 284
 -  jatropha 284
 -  power density 283
 -  production 205
 -  rape 283
 -  sugar beet 283
 -  sugar cane 284
biomass 38, 43
 -  cofiring 212
 -  plantation 212
 -  yields 48
biomethanol 204
bird 269
 -  formation flying 270, 278
 -  longest flight 277
 -  range 276
 -  speed 272
 -  theory of 269
birds and windmills 63
Birmingham 206
Blair 213, 222, 230
blimp 280
blob 181, 221
block 325
BMW 29, 260
 -  Hydrogen 7 130, 139
boat, see also ship
 -  energy consumption 92
 -  nuclear-powered 133
boats as planes 279
Boeing 747 128
Boltzmann 272
bomb 100, 101
Bombardier Q400 35
boron 19, 202, 209
boundary 30
BP 3, 27, 219
brakes 255
braking 125
breeder reactor 163, 165
brick 325
Brinkley 66
Bristol channel 84
Britain 21, 93
 -  electricity demand 186, 188, 342
 -  heights 55
 -  rainfall 55, 56
British Isles 83
British person 30
BritNed 197
Brooklyn windmill 264
Brown 21
BTU 331
building
 -  Cambridge University 298
 -  data 141
 -  energy-efficiency office 298
 -  heat consumption 140, 289
 -  heat-loss parameter 294
 -  Heatkeeper 297, 299
 -  leakiness 294
 -  Passivhaus 298
 -  regulations 291
 -  standards 144
 -  thermal mass 305
 -  typical house 140
bulb 58
 -  incandescent 58
 -  LED 58
 -  low-energy 58
bus 128
 -  electric 120
Bush 42
butter 29, 31
 -  calorific value 29

C3 plants 49
C4 plants 49
C5 66, 127
cable modem 68
Caithness 268
California 182
calm weather 186
Calorie 76, 330
calorie 330
calorific value 29, 31, 48, 213, 284
 -  butter 29
 -  coal 199
 -  DERV 199
 -  diesel 199
 -  ethanol 199
 -  firewood 199
 -  fuel 29, 199
 -  gross 31
 -  hydrogen 199
 -  kerosene 199
 -  methanol 199
 -  net 31
 -  propane 199
 -  waste 287
 -  wood 284
Caltech 2
Cambridge 44, 52, 91
Cambridge University 298
can 89
Canada 21, 235
capacity 33, 63, 267
capacity factor 33, 267, 268
capitalization 25, 328
car 29, 118, 255
 -  eco-car 119
 -  electric 127
 -  embodied energy 94
 -  fish 137
 -  hybrid 126
 -  lights 57
 -  manufacture 94
 -  recharging 261
carbohydrate 43
carbon capture 212
carbon capture and storage 157, 240
carbon dioxide 19, 20
 -  climate change 5
 -  data 6, 9
 -  equivalent 11
 -  greenhouse effect 5
carbon fuel cell 158
carbon intensity 322
carbon neutralization 3, 211, 226, 244
carbon offset 3, 226, 244
carbon price 211
carbon sequestration 157, 240
 -  by cofiring biomass 211
 -  cofiring 212
carbon tax 331
carbon-dioxide emissions
 -  electric car 131
cardboard 284
Cardiff 84
cargo vessel
 -  nuclear-powered 133
carnivore 77
Cars taken off the road 330
cartoon 203
 -  bicycle 259
 -  car 254
 -  flight 270
 -  train 260
 -  wind power 263
 -  windmill 264
cartoon Britain 115, 204
cartoon of flight 272
cartoon-Britain 116
 -  2008 116
cassette-player 70
cat 63, 78, 103
catamaran 128, 280, 282
cavity-wall insulation 142, 295
CCS 157, see also carbon capture and storage
cellulosic bioethanol 205
cellulosic ethanol 284
Celsius 289, 328
cement 325
ceramics 88
Cessna 128, 274
Chancellor 3
charger 68, 69, 72
charging 197
cheese 76
chemical energy 26, 27, 31
chicken 77
chicken feed 77
chicken poo 42, 286
chimney 145, 157
 -  solar 182
China 5, 21, 321
CHP 145
circulation of oceans 242
Citroën Berlingo 127
civilization 50
Clarkson 126
clay 325
clean coal 203, 212
cliff 11
climate change 5, 10
 -  greater threat than terrorism 4
 -  is about energy 5
climate modelling 11
climate-change inactivists 8, 240
clock-radio 70
clothes dryer 51
clothes washing 50, 51
cloud cover 38
cloudy day 45
clutter 88
CO2, see carbon dioxide
coal 8, 94, 206, 284
 -  British resource 6
 -  calorific value 199
 -  clean 203, 212
 -  contains uranium and thorium 175
 -  energy density 199
 -  nuclear radiation from 168
 -  power station closures 342
 -  UK 158
coal imports 343
coal mines 208
coal mining 158, 161
coal power station 5, 157, 330
coal production 6, 343
coal substitution 42
coalition of the willing 244
coastline 65, 74
coefficient of performance 147, 154, 292, 300
coffee 332
cofiring biomass 211
cogeneration 145
coke 89, 94
Colorado 285
combustion 31
commuting 30, 127, 136
compact linear fresnel reflector 184
computer 68, 69, 89
 -  manufacture 94
concentrating solar power 40, 178, 184
 -  parabolic trough 178
concentrator photovoltaics 182
concrete 325
condensation 296
condensing boiler 292
conductivity 303
confusion
 -  power and efficiency 47
 -  power and energy 24
congestion 124
congestion charging 135
conservation of energy 26
Conservative Party 114
consumption 22
 -  European 104
container 91, 332
container ship 91
continent 97
continental Europe 145, 329
continental shelf 82, 243
contraction and convergence 15
convective heat loss rate 290
conversion table 263
conveyor belt 242
cooker 50, 51
cooking 50, 207
cooling tower 145
CoP 147
copper 325
cordless phone 69
Coriolis force 82
corn 286
cornish pasties 91
Cornwall 91
Coronation Street 196
cost 214
 -  arms 221
 -  nuclear decommissioning 175
 -  offshore wind 66
 -  wind 66
counter-current heat exchange 296
countries 17, 105, 231, 336, 337
 -  civilized 50
countryside 208
cow 76, 77, 79
CPV, see concentrator photovoltaics
crisps 80
crock of manure 8
Croesor 202
crops 286
CRT (cathode ray tube) 70
Cruachan 191
crude oil 19, 206
 -  production 5
cruise-ship 88
crust 96
CSP, see concentrating solar power
cubic foot 334
cubic metre 334
cup 332
cup of tea 331
current 84
Curtis 130
CUTE 130
cv 333
cyclist 264
Czech Republic 21

dairy 76, 79
dam 55
damp 296
Darth Vader 68
data
 -  area 338
 -  bathymetry 61
 -  calorific values 284
 -  carbon intensity of electricity production 335
 -  carbon intensity of fuels 335
 -  CO2 concentrations 6, 9
 -  coal imports 343
 -  coal production 6, 7, 9, 343
 -  commuting 30, 127, 136
 -  countries 338
 -  depths 61
 -  electric car 127
 -  electrical generation capacity 342
 -  electricity demand 342
 -  electricity production 342, 343
 -  emissions 15
 -  emissions of cars 136
 -  energy consumption 105, 231, 337
 -  energy gap 342
 -  fossil fuels 343
 -  freight 92
 -  G-Wiz 127
 -  gas consumption 343
 -  gas demand 200
 -  GDP 105, 231, 336
 -  greenhouse gas emissions 336, 337
 -  heat consumption 141
 -  height 55
 -  hydroelectricity 343
 -  Iceland 97
 -  imports 323
 -  incineration 207
 -  landfill 207
 -  nuclear power 343
 -  nuclear power by country 161
 -  offshore wind 64
 -  oil consumption 284
 -  oil price 5
 -  oil production 5-7, 9
 -  photovoltaics 40
 -  population 9, 338
 -  power station closures 5
 -  pumped storage 201
 -  recycling 207
 -  rolling resistance 258
 -  sea depths 61
 -  straw production 286
 -  sunniness 38, 44, 238
 -  urban population density 152
 -  waste 207
 -  water depths 61
 -  wind
    -  Cairngorm 32
    -  Cambridge 32, 34
    -  Ireland 187
 -  wind power fluctuations 188
 -  wood 284
DD 172
decentralization
 -  microturbines 63
decommissioning 217
deep offshore wind 60, 66
definition
 -  sustainable 157
degree-day 291, 293
Delaware 47
deliberate inaccuracy 16
delivery vehicle 138
demand
 -  electricity 186, 188, 342
 -  gas 200
demand management 189, 196, 197
Denmark 26, 33, 34, 63, 197
density 31, 263
Department of Defense 102
depths 61
DERV
 -  calorific value 199
 -  energy density 199
desalination 92, 93, 310
desert 178
deuterium fusion 172
Diamond 177
diesel 31
 -  calorific value 199
 -  energy density 199
digital hydraulics 126
digital radio 70
Dinorwig 191-193, 216, 329
direct carbon fuel cell 158
direct normal irradiance 180
dirigible 280
dishwashing 50, 51
district heating 145
diversity 207
DIY planet repairs 72, 154
do your bit 3
dog 78
door 294
double decker bus 332
double glazing 141, 294
double-decker bus 3
double-effect generation 311
Dounreay 163
drag 118
drag coefficient 137, 254-256
drag-to-lift ratio 273
draught proofing 141, 289
Drax 330
drinks can 89
driving 79
DT 172
duck 309
DVD player 69
Dynamic Demand 202
dynamic demand 196

e 333
e500 137
eagle 63
earth 10, 81, 325
 -  area 332
easily turn-off-and-onable 186
EastEnders 196
Eco Cute 154
eco-boat 128, 130
Eco-Bollocks award 66
eco-car 119
economic costs 23
economics 66, 203, 211
 -  of wind 34
economies of scale 34
economist 2
economy 29
EdF 5, 342
EEStor 199
efficiency 115, 191, 201
 -  confused with power 47
 -  improvements 42
 -  more-efficient planes 37
 -  of incineration 44
 -  of plants 49
 -  of solar panels 47
 -  scope for improvement 23
efficiency legislation 153
Eggborough 330
EGS (enhanced geothermal systems) 234
Einstein 277
Eisenhower 100, 133
ekranoplan 281
Elean Power Station 288
electric bus 120
electric car 128
 -  CO2 emissions 131
 -  data 127
 -  range 261
 -  recharging 261
 -  theory 261
electric fan heater 51
electric vehicle 197, 206
 -  battery cost 131
 -  in cold places 132
 -  in hot places 131
 -  lifetime 131
 -  RAV4 138
electric vehicles 189
electric vehicles and wind power 195
electrical energy 27
electricity 50, 69, 203
 -  demand management 196
 -  demand varies 186
 -  greening of 131
 -  grid 197
 -  hydroelectric 55
 -  mains 196
 -  supply 50, 131, 204, 342
    -  energy gap 5
electricity production 343
electrification
 -  of heating 205
 -  of transport 204
Elettrica 127
embedded 89
embodied 89
embodied energy
 -  aluminium 94
 -  building 326
 -  building materials 325
 -  car 94, 324
 -  glass 325
 -  metal 325
 -  paper 95
 -  PET 94
 -  rock 325
 -  steel 94
 -  water 95
 -  wood 325
emissions
 -  flight 16
 -  flying 16
 -  of electricity production 335
 -  of fuels 335
 -  travel 16
emissions trading 217, 226
enemy of the people 4
energy 24
 -  chemical 31
 -  conservation 26
 -  contrasted with power 24
 -  geothermal 96
 -  kinetic 28
 -  low-grade 39
 -  of vaporization 31
 -  spending 217
 -  wave 307
energy amplifier 166
energy conversion 103
energy crops 42, 283
energy demand variations 186, 200
energy density 29, 31, 284
 -  butter 29
 -  coal 199
 -  DERV 199
 -  diesel 199
 -  ethanol 199
 -  firewood 199
 -  fuel 29, 199
 -  hydrogen 199
 -  kerosene 199
 -  lead-acid battery 199
 -  lithium-ion battery 199
 -  methanol 199
 -  propane 199
energy efficiency 58
energy gap 5, 342
energy intensity 115
energy waste league 68
energy yield ratio 41, 42
 -  solar PV 41
 -  wind 42
engineer 31
England 55
England—France interconnector 183, 209
enhanced geothermal extraction 98
entertainment system 69
entropy 26, 92
environmental costs of renewables 23
equator 38
estimation 264
Estonia 21
ethanol 42
 -  calorific value 199
 -  energy density 199
 -  from corn 284
 -  from sugar cane 284
Etheridge 19
ethical assertions 17
ethics 11
 -  breeder reactor 163
 -  pollution 14
Europe 43, 104, 108, 207, 233, 338
 -  continental 145, 146, 329
European Union 219
European Wind Energy Association 235
EV1 137
Evans 139
every little helps 3, 58, 68
evil 68
exchange rate 27
Exxon 219

factory 88
factual assertions 17
Fair Isle 197, 198
fallacy, see also myth
 -  Limits to Growth 174
farm
 -  solar 208
fast breeder reactor 162, 163
fat is 6000 metres per second 277
faucet 24
fertilizer 43, 48, 78, 80
fetch 73
Fetish 138
FEU 332
Ffestiniog 191
fibreglass 325
Fido 78
filling station
 -  role in electric transport 261
finesse 273
finger millet 49
Finland 208, 216
fire
 -  electric 51
fire 51
firewood
 -  calorific value 199
 -  energy density 199
Fischer 177
fish 137
flight
 -  boats that fly 279
 -  emissions 16, 36
 -  formation 270
 -  future of 132, 211
 -  myth about going slower 269
 -  optimal speed 272
 -  optimum height 277
flight record 277
Florø 312
flow 24, 84
fluctuations 186, 205, 210
fluff 141
fluorescent bulb 58
flux 38
flywheel 198
fog 11
food 38
 -  waste 43, 219
food miles 91
food waste 48
football 197
foreigners 5
forest 205, 235
formation flying 270, 278
formula
 -  kinetic energy 30
 -  wave 307
Formula One 333
Fossett 277
fossil fuel 203
 -  backup for wind 187
fossil fuels 5
 -  peaking of 5
Foyers 191
fractal 65
France 21, 171, 208, 209, 211
freezer 50
freight 133, 324
 -  energy consumption 92
fridge 94
fridge-freezer 50, 69
Friends of the Earth 19
frontal area 119, 255
fuel
 -  calorific value 29, 199
 -  energy density 29, 199
fuel cell
 -  bus 130
 -  direct carbon 158
fuel efficiency 36
fusion reactor 172

g 307
G-Wiz 127
 -  data 127
gadget 69
Gaia 2
gallium arsenide 40
gallon 331
galvanised steel 325
garden 147
gas 206
 -  landfill 287
 -  methane 287
 -  national demand 200
gas consumption 343
gas mantle 166
gas meter 334
gas pipeline 62
gasoline 31
GDP 105, 231, 336
geese 278
General Motors 129, 137
genetic engineering 44
genetic modification 43, 49, 285, 288
geoengineering 240
geothermal 96, 237
 -  enhanced 98
 -  hot dry rock 99
 -  Iceland 183
 -  magma 99
geothermal energy 96
geothermal mining 96
geothermal power 26, 96
Germany 21, 33, 34
get building 250
GHG, see greenhouse gas
giant vacuum cleaner 244
gigaton 240
gigawatt 25, 188
gigawatt-hour 25
giggle 25
Giza 332
Glasgow 33, 56
glass 88, 325
glasswool 325
glazing 294
glazing 141
Glendoe 56
glide number 273
glide ratio 273
global warming 10
GlobalFlyer 277
glorification of travel 4
GM 129
GM EV1 137
gmt 252 [not available in html edition of book]
gnuplot 252 [not available in html edition of book]
godwit 277
good-against-evil 100
goods 88
Goodstein 2
Google 239
gown 293
grain crops 286
granite 301, 302, 325
grass 42
gravity 307
grazing 78
Great Yarmouth 268
green algae 285, 288
Green Party 210
greenhouse effect 5, 10
greenhouse gas 10
greening electricity supply 131
Greenland icecap 10
Greenpeace 4, 19, 161, 210, 235, 269
Gretar Ivarsson 97
gross calorific value 31
ground-source heat pump 205
Grubb 226
guerrilla physics 31
GW 25
GW(e) 333
GWp 333
gypsum 325

hair-dryer 88
Haishan 321
Hammerfest 84
Hansen 248
hardboard 325
hardwood 284, 325
hate 4
Hawaii 6
heat 10
 -  waste 145
heat capacity 50, 302
heat engine 145
heat exchanger 297
heat flow 97
heat loss parameter 297
heat pump 26, 52, 205, 300, 301
 -  air source 151
 -  winter 153
heat-loss coefficient 140, 141, 291
heat-loss parameter 294, 295
Heathrow Airport 217
heating 203
 -  efficiency 292
 -  under-floor 151
Heatkeeper 297, 299
Heaton 43
hectare 246
height 277
heights 55
helicopter 128
Heliodynamics 40, 48
heliostats 184
helium 280
Helm 322
Helston 91
Herne Bay 60
HEU 102
high heat value 31
high-enriched uranium 102
highland hydroelectricity 56
highlands 55
 -  rainfall 55
history 108
hockey stick graph 19
home 4, 329
Honda 31, 139
 -  FCX Clarity 130
 -  fuel-cell car 130
hoop 263
Horns Reef 61, 65
horse 78
horsepower 28
hot air 51
hot dry rock 98, 99
hot water 26, 50
hours of sunshine 44
house 293
House of Lords 228
Housebuilder's Bible 66
household waste incineration 43
hp 333
Hummer 129, 130
HVDC 178, see high voltage DC
hybrid cars 126
 -  compared 126
 -  misleading advertising 126
hydraulics 126
hydrocarbon 29, 31
hydroelectricity 55, 206, 235
 -  highland 56
 -  Iceland 183
hydroelectricity production 343
hydrofoil 279
hydrogen 130, 285
 -  and boron 202
 -  and wind power 195
 -  calorific value 199
 -  energy cost of 139
 -  energy density 199
 -  from algae 285
 -  from bacteria 42
 -  plane 277
 -  production by nuclear power 174
 -  storage efficiency 196
hydrogen car 128, 130, 139
hydrogen vehicles 195
HyperCar 139

i MiEV 137
ice cores 6
ice-breaker 133
Iceland 96, 97, 183, 185, 197
IKEA 155
imported power 206
imports 322
 -  coal 343
 -  energy 209, 211
imprecision 16
inaccuracy 16
inactivist 8
incineration
 -  efficiency 44
 -  waste 43
Independent 8, 20, 66
Indermuhle 19
India 21, 166
Industrial Revolution 6, 9
information systems 68
infrared 10
insulation 141, 205, 296
insurance 217
interconnector
 -  England—France 179, 183
 -  Iceland 183
 -  Norway 197, 207
intercontinental flight
 -  emissions 16
intermittency 62
internet 21
investment 217
IPCC 36, 169, 249
Iraq war 221
Ireland 73, 187, 201, 312
 -  wind output 187
irresponsible journalism 8
irrigation 43
Isaac Asimov 115
island
 -  nuclear 174
Islay 75
Isles of Scilly 83
ITER 172

J-Power 194
jack-up barge 63, 67, 208, 216
Japan 21, 144, 151, 173, 268, 338
 -  efficiency legislation 153
jatropha 284
Jersey 310
Jersey Police 138
Jersey Water 93
JET 198
jet fuel 31
jet travel 211
 -  emissions 16
jet-ski 128, 130
Jevons 19, 157, 158, 186
joule 25, 328
journalism 8
journalist 139
jumbo jet 273
junk mail 4
Jutland 65

Kazakhstan 177, 338
kcal 76, 330
Keeling 19
keeping the lights on 68
kelvin 289
Kemp 135
Ken 72, 154
Kentish Flats 60, 64, 67, 216
kerosene
 -  calorific value 199
 -  energy density 199
kettle 50, 51, 197
Khrushchev 281
kilocalorie 330
kiloton 101
kilowatt 50
kilowatt-hour 24
kilowatt-hour per day 24
kinetic energy 28, 255, 263, 307
kinetic-energy storage 198
king coal 8
King 228, 248
Kinlochewe 55, 56
knot 84
kW(e) 333
kWp 333

λ 307
La Rance 84, 85
Labour 19
laminar flow control 275
laminated wood 325
landfill 43, 88, 206, 207
landfill gas 287
landlord 227
Langeled 62, 63, 219
laptop computer 70
Larry 227
laser-printer 69, 70
last thing 240
laundry 50, 51
laws of physics
 -  conservation of energy 26
Lawson 8, 20
layer (chicken) 77
LCA, see lifecycle analysis
LCD (liquid crystal display) 70
lead-acid battery
 -  efficiency 202
 -  energy density 199
leadership 230
leakiness 141, 291, 293, 294
Learjet 128, 275
LED 58, 205
Leggett 228
lego 88
LEU 102
Lexus 126
 -  misleading advertising 126
Liberal Democrats 210, 213
Libya 177, 338
life-cycle
 -  of stuff 88
life-cycle analysis 88, 131
lifecycle analysis 324
lifestyle change 141
lift-to-drag ratio 273, 278
lightbulb 58
 -  incandescent 58
 -  LED 58
 -  low-energy 58
Lightning car 137
lights 57
Limits to Growth 174
Limpet 75
liquid fuels
 -  from plants 283
liquid salt
 -  energy storage 178
litany 10, 21
lithium 139, 172, 176
lithium fusion 172
lithium titanate 137
lithium-ion 137
lithium-ion battery
 -  efficiency 202
 -  energy density 199
lithium-ion polymer battery
 -  energy density 199
lithium-sulphur 202
litre 332
little square 236
Livingstone 154
Llyn Stwlan 191
load factor 33, 64, 66, 267, 268
Loch Lomond 192, 193
Loch Sloy 56, 193
loft insulation 141
logarithmic scale 7, 9
Lomborg 2
London 72, 154, 206, 217
London Array 66
London Underground 135
Loremo 137
Los Angeles 3
love 4
Lovelock 2
low heat value 31
low-enriched uranium 102
low-grade energy 39
low-grade heat 97
lowlands 55
 -  rainfall 55
LPG 94
lumber 325
lumens per watt 58
Lun 281
lunar energy 82
Luxembourg 21

m 329
magic playing field 4, 171
magma 99
magnesium silicate 246
Magnus platform 63
mains electricity 196
maize 49
make-up 219
Malin Head 312
manufacture 94
manufacturing 68, 131
manure 8
Manzanares 183
map 11
Maplin 68
Marchetti 174
margarine 29
Mastrandrea 15
Mayor of London 72, 154
Mazda 131
McCarthy 66
McMahon 72
McNuggets 42
MDF 325
meat 77
meat-eating 78
Mega City 137
megaton 101
membrane 92
mercury 58
metal 88
metapost 252 [not available in html edition of book]
meter reading 334
methane 43, 206, 287
methane hydrates 243
methanol 209
 -  calorific value 199
 -  energy density 199
metre 328
Mexican wave 307
Mexico 235
micro-CHP 145
micro-generation 268
micro-turbine 268
microgeneration 63
microturbine 63
microwave 50, 51
microwind 63
Middle Ages 108
middlehen 78
middlesow 78
migration 278
military 221
 -  aid 221
milk 76
milliard 329
million 329
millpond 74
mine 186
mini-SUV 138
mini-turbine 268
mining
 -  coal 158, 161
 -  geothermal 96
Mio 329
mirror 40
miscanthus 43, 48, 205, 283
misleading advertising 126
misleading presentation 171
MIT 98, 99
mixing 92
mobile-phone charger 68, 72
Modec 138
modem 68
molten salt 178
monazite 166
moon 81, 82, 96
Moore 161
mortar board 293
motivations 5
motorcycle 11
motorway 217
Mrd 329
Mt 329
Mtoe 329
Mühlhausen 41, 48
multinational chemicals 89
multiple-junction photovoltaics 47
municipal solid waste 207, 284
mutton 78
MW(e) 333
MWp 333
MyCar 137
myth
 -  car inefficiency 119
 -  carbon trading 226
 -  food 79
 -  hydroelectricity 56
 -  new planes far more efficient 132
 -  nuclear power build rate 171
 -  offsetting 3, 226
 -  planes should fly slower 269
 -  solar panels 45
 -  walking 79
 -  wind reliability 201

Nanosafe 137
Nant-y-Moch 55
National Academy of Sciences 20
national gas demand 200
National Renewable Energy Laboratory 285
natural gas 206, 287
 -  demand varies 200
 -  national demand 200
Nature magazine 129, 139
Nazi invasion 110, 112, 267
neap tide 81, 84
Neftel 19
net calorific value 31
Netherlands 201
neutralization 3, 226, 244
New Jersey 236
New Mexico 182
New Scientist 4, 19
New Zealand 264
Newbery 226
newspaper 94, 95, 284, 287
newsprint 95
newton 259, 328
Newton's laws 269
nickel cadmium battery
 -  energy density 199
nickel metal hydride battery
 -  energy density 199
nickel-cadmium 89, 94
NIMBY 208
nitrogen 272
nitrous oxides 36
nomenclature 328
North America 234
North Hoyle 64, 268
North Sea 73, 82, 83
 -  oil 5
Northern Ireland 85
Norway 63, 84, 136, 190, 197, 219, 312
nose 296
nostril 296
NS Savannah 133
nuclear 211
 -  capacity 342
 -  hydrogen production 174
 -  power station closures 5, 342
 -  reactor
    -  breeder 163
    -  energy amplifier 166
    -  fusion 172
    -  once-through 162
 -  weapon 100, 161
    -  testing 220
nuclear clean-up costs 175
nuclear decommissioning authority 167, 175
nuclear power 2, 4, 18, 19, 68, 206
 -  costs 165, 167
 -  data by country 161
 -  decommissioning 165, 217
 -  inflexibility 186
 -  station 162
    -  build rate 171
    -  construction 169
    -  fuel required 165
nuclear radiation
 -  from coal power 168
nuclear reactor
 -  fast breeder 163
nuclear stockpile 220
numbers 4

O'Leary 36
oats 286
ocean 81
 -  uranium extraction 165
ocean circulation 242
ocean conveyor belt 162, 242
ocean liner 128, 133
Ocean Power Delivery 309
offsetting 3, 226, 244
offshore wind 60, 64
 -  cost 66
 -  data 64
 -  deep 60
 -  jack-up barges 63, 208, 216
 -  load factor 268
 -  shallow 60
oil 206
 -  North Sea 5
 -  price 5
oil consumption 284
oil field 64
oil platform 64
oil power stations 5
oilrig 60
oilseed rape 283
oilspinner 10
Okinawa 194
olivine 246
Olkiluoto 216
on-site renewables 300
once-through 162
orange 96
Orkney 82, 268
Otto cycle 136
Out of Gas 2
outlet 50
oven 50, 51
overcast day 45
oxygen 272
Oxygen Cargo 138
Oyster 310
ozone 36

p 333
p-km 118
packaging 88
paddling pool 82
paint 325
paper 3, 89, 95, 284, 322
 -  embodied energy 95
parabolic trough 178
particleboard 325
passenger-kilometre 118
Passivhaus 298
pasties 91
patio heater 52
peak 267
peak nuclear 2
peak oil 2, 5, 19
peak power 63
pedant 31, 65
pee 92
Pelamis 74, 208, 309
perfume 219
period 307
PET
 -  embodied energy 94
petagram 329
petrol 31
petrol engine 136
petrol pump 333
petroleum substitution 42
Pg 329
Phoenix SUT 138
phone 68
phone charger 4, 68
photosynthesis 43, 285
 -  efficiency 49
photovoltaic 38, 39
photovoltaic panels 45
physicist 2
physics 30
 -  conservation of energy 26
 -  Newton's laws 269
pick-ups 196
pig 77
pig-iron 9
pilot 277
pint 331, 332
pipeline 219
plan 163
plan D 207
plan E 211
plan G 210
plan L 209
plan M 214, 216
plan N 208
plane 35
 -  efficiency improvements 37
 -  myth about flying slower 269
 -  turboprop 35
planes
 -  boats as an example of 279
planet 10
 -  destruction 68
planet Dorkon 29
plant yields 48, 283
plants
 -  C3 49
 -  C4 49
 -  more efficient 49
plaster 325
plasterboard 325
plastic 88, 325
plutonium 101, 102
plywood 325
politics 203
polluter pays 14
pollution 58
pool 82
poplar 205, 283
poppycock 171
population density 33, 177, 213
 -  urban 152
population growth 7, 9, 115
population reduction 4, 115
pork 77
Porritt 2
positive feedback 243
potential energy 307
power 24
 -  confused with efficiency 47
 -  definition 24
 -  of sunshine 38
 -  standby 155
power density 41
 -  all renewables 112, 177
 -  biofuel 283
 -  concentrating solar power 178, 184
 -  highland hydroelectricity 56
 -  hot water panels 39
 -  hydroelectricity 55, 56
 -  miscanthus 43
 -  offshore wind 60
 -  photovoltaics 47
 -  plants 43
 -  rape 283
 -  sunshine 38
 -  wind 263
 -  wind farm 32
power meter 68
power per unit area, see power density
power per unit length
 -  tide 83, 312
 -  wave 74
power station 5, 26, 103, 330, 342
 -  closures 5
 -  coal 330
Powergen 342
ppm 248
presentation 4, 171
President Dwight D. Eisenhower 100, 133
Prestatyn 64
printer 70
Prius 126, 136
Process Energy Requirement 324
projector 70
pronunciation 25
propane
 -  calorific value 199
 -  energy density 199
ps 333
PS10 184
public negativity 250
public transport 204
pumped storage 86, 189, 191, 192, 210
 -  efficiency 191, 201
Punch and Judy show 250
PVC 325
pyramid 332

Qatar 21
QE2 128
quad 331
quart 331
quartz 302
Queen's University Belfast 310
quilt 10

radiator 51
radio 70
radioactive decay 96
rail 119, 258-260
 -  energy consumption 92
 -  freight 92
rainfall 55
Rance 85
ranch 42
range
 -  electric car 261
 -  of bird 276
Range Rover 128
rape biodiesel 283
Rapley 115
Rau 19
RAV4 138
reactive power 72
reactor 167
 -  fast breeder 163
rechargeable battery 89, 94
recharging 261
record 277
recycling 88, 206
 -  data 207
refrigeration 26
refrigerator 50, 147
 -  manufacture 94
refrigerators
 -  and demand management 196
regenerative braking 125
religion 197
renewable energy
 -  research and development 221
renewable obligation certificate 66
renewables 186
reporters 68
research and development 221
REVA 127
reverse osmosis 92, 93, 196, 310
Rijndam 133
river 145
 -  uranium 165
River Deben 82
road freight 91
roadmap 203
ROC, see renewables obligation certificate
rock 96
Rocky Mountain Institute 139
rolling resistance 258
Rolls Royce 37
Rosemanowes 98
rotor 267
Royal Albert Hall 332
rubber 258, 325
Rubbia 166
rubbish 88
runaway feedbacks 243
Russia 21, 133, 237
Ryanair 36

Sahara 178
Saint-Malo 85
salinity 242
salt water 92
salt 178
Salter 135
 -  duck 309
San Francisco 120
Sandia National Laboratories 99
Saudi Arabia 6, 177, 220, 338
Saudi oil 9
sausage 270, 272
Sauven 19
Savannah 133
SAX-40 37
saying no 108
Scaled Composites 277
sceptic 6, 8
Schwarzenegger 130
Scotland 64, 83, 192, 198
 -  rainfall 56
screen 69
Scroby Sands 268
sea depths 61
sea snake 309
sea-level rise 10, 17
SeaBus 120
seawater 93, 162, 166, 172, 174, 176
 -  uranium extraction 165, 174
second 328
security of energy supply 5, 111
 -  wind 187
SELCHP 216, 287
separative work unit 102
sequestration 157, 240
servant 24
set-top box 68
Severn barrage 85
Severn Estuary 84
Seville 184
sexy personalities 205
Shadowfax 78
shallow offshore wind 60
shallow water 310
sheep 78
Shell 66, 219
Shell UK 60
Shetland 268
ship 9
 -  container 91
 -  cruise-ship 88
 -  energy consumption 92
 -  nuclear-powered 133
 -  painting 3
shipping 91, 95, 133
Shockley—Queisser limit 47
shop 88
short-rotation coppices 49
shower 50, 51
SI 328
Siberia 243
Siegenthaler 19
silent aircraft 37
simplification 16
Sinclair C5 66, 127
Sizewell 167
sleep 69
slew rate 188
slime 285
small is beautiful 161
Smart Car 136
Smith 60
Smola 63
snow 243
Snowdonia 191, 192
social costs 23
softwood 284, 325
solar
 -  farm 208
solar chimney 182
solar farm 41
solar heating 39
solar heating panels 301
solar hot water 205, 238
solar panels 39
 -  on cloudy day 45
solar photovoltaics 39
 -  biggest plant in world 48
 -  world total 41, 48
solar power 38
 -  concentrating 40
    -  parabolic trough 178
 -  in vehicles 131
solar power station 178
solar thermal electricity 184
solar updraft tower 182
solar warrior 40
Solarcentury 228
Solarpark 41, 48, 216
Solartres 184
Solúcar 184, 216
sorghum 49
South Africa 197
Southampton Geothermal District Heating Scheme 98, 99
space shuttle 219
spaceship 29, 255
Spain 178, 183
 -  wind 201
spark plug 44
speed 263, 307
speed-boat 130
spelling 328
spring tide 81, 84
square in desert 178, 236
stack 22
stadium 307
stainless steel 325
standby 69
standby power 155
STE 184
steak 77, 79
steam engine 6, 9
steel 89, 94, 325
 -  embodied energy 94
steel production 62
stereo 69
Stern review 221, 230
Stiglitz 221
Stirling engine 184
stockpile stewardship 220
stop-gap 96
stop-sign 255
storage
 -  kinetic energy 198
 -  molten salt 178
stove 50
Strangford Lough 85
Strathclyde University 202
straw 96, 288, 325
straw-burning power station 286
streamlined 255
street-light 59
stuff 13, 68, 88
submarine 281
subsidy 219
Sudan 177, 338
sugar beet 283
sugarcane 49
sun 96
sunlight 243
sunniness 38, 44
sunroof 131
sunshine 38
 -  data 238
superjumbo 132
sustainable
 -  definition 157
sustainable coal 158
Sustainable Development Commission 2, 106
sustainable energy
 -  environmental costs 23
 -  social costs 23
SUV 138
sweater wearing 205
Sweden 190, 197, 208
swimming pool 332
swirling air 255
switchgrass 49, 284
SWU 102, 173

t-km 118
tap 24
tax 219
taxman 3
tea 50, 332
Team Crocodile 119
teaspoon 69
technology 115
telephone 68
television 68, 103
temperature 50
temperature demand 292
tenant 227
tepid 26
terrorism 4
Tesco 219
Tesla Roadster 127
TEU 95, 332
Texas 182, 187, 201
th 333
Thames Estuary 64, 82, 83
The Skeptical Environmentalist 2
thermal conductivity 302
thermal fly-tipping 301
thermal mass 305
thermal solar 238
thermal transmittance 289
thermal 38
thermohaline circulation 242
thermostat 4, 141, 154
thin air 240
Think 136
thorium 166, 174
 -  in coal 175
 -  reserves 166
 -  resources 166
thorium oxide 166
three-wheeler 138
thrust 273
tidal barrage 206
tidal friction 96
tidal lagoon 86, 206, 211, 321
tidal power 82, 86
 -  two basins 320
tidal stream 206
tidal wave 83
Tiddles 78
tide 82, 237
 -  as waves 311
 -  compared with wind 86
 -  explanation 81
 -  in oceans 81
 -  two-way generation 311
 -  UK resource 321
tide is like wind 315, 316
tide speed 82
tide-pool 82
timber 325
Tina 227
tinyURL 344 [not available in html edition of book]
Titanic 68, 69
TNT 101
toaster 50
toe 329, 333
ton 331
ton-km 118
tonne 331, see ton
Toyota Prius 136
Toyota RAV4 EV 138
toys 68
traffic congestion 124
traffic lights 59
train 118-120, 128, 258-260
 -  freight 92
transformer 69
translation 370
transmission 209
transmission lines 211
transport 203
 -  efficiency 79
    -  bicycle 119, 134, 259
    -  catamaran 282
    -  eco-car 119
    -  electric car 127
    -  electric scooter 138
    -  freight 92
    -  plane 36, 274
    -  train 119, 134
 -  efficiency measures 119
travel 30
 -  average 30
 -  emissions 16
trees 43, 49, 284
 -  artificial 249
TREV 138
Trident 221
triple glazing 141
trolleybus 120
tropics 49
truth 68
Tsukuba City 268
tsunami 83, 311
tube of air 255
tumble dryer 51
turbine 145
turboprop 35, 128
turn down 154
turn-off-and-onable 186
TV pick-ups 196
Two-Seater Renewable Energy Vehicle 138
two-way generation 311
tyre 258

U-value 289, 294
UK 21
UK coal 6, 7, 9
UK electricity production 342, 343
UK territorial waters 61
uncertainty 11
under-floor heating 151
understanding 16
underwater windmill 83
unit conversion 334
United Kingdom 17, see UK
units 24, 329
 -  speed 263
 -  translation 370
University of South Australia 138
unplug 72
untrustworthy foreigners 5
updraft tower
 -  solar 182
uranium 101, 166, 206
 -  cost 165
 -  depleted 163
 -  extraction from seawater 165, 174
 -  in coal 175
 -  reserves 2, 162
URL, see web pointer
US military 102
USA 99, 234
 -  crops 49
USS Akron 280

vacuum cleaner 71
vacuum cleaner 244
Vader 68
Valentia 312
vampire power 155
Vancouver 120
Vectrix 138
vegan 77
vegetarian 4, 77
vegetarianism 78
vehicle
 -  electric 127
vehicle to grid 198
ventilation 289, 296
Venturi Fetish 138
Vestas 64
vicious cycle 243
Virgin 277
Virgin Trains 330
Viridian Solar 39
viscosity 309
VLS-PV, see very large scale photovoltaics
Volkswagen 255
volt 50
volume 24, 331, 332
 -  units 332
vortex 270
VRB power systems 200

W(e) 333
Wales 55, 60, 64, 78, 191, 268
Walkers crisps 80
walking 79
wall 294
war 100, 221
 -  Iraq 221
 -  on drugs 219
Wartsila—Sulzer 262
washing 51
waste food 43, 48, 219
waste heat 145
waste incineration 26, 43, 206, 207, 212
 -  efficiency 213
water 24, 36, 50
 -  cost of 92
 -  desalination 92
 -  embodied energy 95
 -  hot 50
 -  pumping 92
 -  shallow 310
water depths 61
water power 55
water vapour 73
watercraft 279
waterwheel 56
watt 68, 328
Watt 6, 9, 328
wave 73, 307, 308
 -  deep-water 307
 -  Mexican 307
 -  production by boats 92
 -  shallow-water 312
 -  source of 73
 -  tides as waves 311
wave speed 82
wave-farm 74
Wavegen 75
wavelength 307
we should have a plan that adds up 163
weapons 221
web pointer
Weetabix 42
Weier 72
weight 259
Wellington 264
Wembley 332
wheat 286
White 60
white-tailed eagles 63
Whitelee wind farm 33
Whitstable 60
Whorf 19
Wicks 111
willow 205, 283
wind 32, 210, 235, 307
 -  arguments against 187
 -  compared with tide 86
 -  cost 66
 -  data 32, 34, 187, 265
 -  deep offshore 61, 66
 -  intermittency 187
 -  Irish 188
 -  micro-wind 63, 66
 -  offshore 60
    -  cost 66
    -  jack-up barges 63, 208, 216
    -  London Array 66
    -  power density 60
 -  origin of 73
 -  Spain 201
wind farm 32, 214
 -  Whitelee 33
wind power and electric vehicles 195
wind turbine 34
Windermere 192
windmill 267
 -  underwater 83
window 294
Windsave WS1000 66
windspeed
 -  Cairngorm 32
 -  Cambridge 32, 34
 -  data 265
wing 270
winter
 -  heat pumps 153
wood 43, 49, 95, 284
Woodbridge 82
woolly jumper 141
world 17, 105, 221, 231, 336-338
world coal 6, 7, 9
world coal production 7
world oil consumption 284
world solar power 41, 48
Wp 333

Xebra 137

Yamal 133
Yes Minister 228
yield 48
you can have only one row 315, 316

Ze-0 137
zeppelin 280
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