This is the section where I'm supposed to "sell myself", and instill confidence in you that I'm an authority on the subject of energy. Well, I'll leave that for you to decide from reading the rest of the site. You know my credentials, so I'm not going to mention energy or my professional qualifications again now.

As you can probably tell, I enjoy web design (for those of you in the know, this whole site was written by hand in a plain text editor). My other website is digitalphotographyfromscratch.com. I seem to like long domain names...

Outside of studying, I enjoy music in all its forms (playing, listening, singing, composing), I love photography and I'm sure I would like exercise more if I actually did it.

Oh, and by the way, I am an English person (though half Hungarian). That's why, if you are of the American persuasion, you may find higher than average instances of the letter "u". It should also explain any hint of sarcasm or irony which may have, quite inadvertently, found itself into this site.

Please feel free to contact me about the site or energy issues. Especially if you spot a tpying erorr.

Who am I?

My name is Michael, I'm a postgraduate student studying Environmental Technology, specialising in energy policy. I have an undergraduate degree in Physics.

I discovered my interest in energy during the second year of my Physics degree, in a module called "Environmental Physics". It was a very general course and covered topics which would be completely inappropriate here (dry adiabatic lapse rate, anyone?) but it was enough to make me want to learn more about the other aspects of energy and the environment, away from pure Physics.

This site, my postgraduate studies, and hopefully a career are due to that interest.

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I welcome your comments, questions and criticisms (constructive, please!). You can contact me on the contact page.

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Recommended Reading: Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

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If there is one book I would recommend to clarify the energy issues we face, it would be "Sustainable Energy - without the hot air" by David MacKay. A physics professor at the University of Cambridge (UK), MacKay deals with the topic entirely from an analytical point of view.

This book is almost constantly open on my desk for reference; no other book I've read has come close to the clarity of this one. There is no politics, no social consideration or economics, just the plain numbers behind how much we use and how much each source of energy can give us.

Numbers don't lie. Don't worry about being told to change your lifestyle - another book will do that, no doubt. This one will give you the tools you need to come to informed conclusions about energy, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. If you buy a single book on the topic, make it this one.

You can see the book's website at withouthotair.com.