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Thu, 18 Feb 2010

Bill Gates's recommended energy/climate books from TED 2010
I enjoyed Bill Gates's talk on innovating to 0 net carbon emissions at TED 2010. You can watch it in the embeded player below or at the TED site.

At the 17:00 mark Bill suggests some books to read. I squinted hard and was able to make up a list of 7 of the 8 books. Here they are:

1. Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air by David J. C. MacKay
2. Energy in Nature and Society: General Energetics of Complex Systems by Vaclav Smil
3. Global Warming: The Complete Briefing by John Houghton
4. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet by Oliver Morton
5. Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines by Richard A. Muller
6. Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
7. Our Choice by Al Gore

I cannot read the last one, which appears to be a web page. If anyone knows what it is I would appreciate it if you could share that information with me.
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