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Originally Posted by aerohead
It will be this coming Saturday before I'd have a chance to look at You-Tube.This computer I have access to during the week has no audio capability.
I little synopsis of what they say would be a big help.
I know a lot of Ph.D.s I wouldn't trust to feed my cat,so their degree doesn't automatically qualify them as trustworthy,but I'll try for Saturday,losing some of the only day in the week that I can research for myself.
I appreciate the links.
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MacKay's book is available in print for loan at most libraries. It is focused on the scale of possible efficiency improvements and and available energy production techniques from an engineering standpoint. Murphy is similar and published his information online. There are many others going back to "The Limits To Growth" from 1972. Richard Heinberg has written several books.
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I can probably save you the trouble. I think you will find any of this too dissonant to your super optimistic view on renewables to accept.
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I honestly don't understand how anyone can look at a chart from 2017 that shows that after the concerted world build out of solar for the past 10 years it still only produces .3% of total energy, can cling to wishfully thinking it can power a modern civilization at even a fraction of the current scale.