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Sustainable Energy – without the hot air
David JC MacKay
About the author
David MacKay is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge. He studied Natural
Sciences at Cambridge and then obtained his PhD in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of
Technology. He returned to Cambridge as a Royal Society research fellow at Darwin College. He is internationally
known for his research in machine learning, information theory, and communication systems, including the invention
of Dasher, a software interface that enables efficient communication in any language with any muscle. He has taught
Physics in Cambridge since 1995. Since 2005, he has devoted much of his time to public teaching about energy. He
is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Climate Change.