Acknowledgments

David MacKay’s acknowledgments for the 2008 edition are not reproduced here. They belong to that book, and they are on the original site:

Acknowledgments, Sustainable Energy — Without the Hot Air, page 251

Nobody thanked there has had any part in the 2026 revision, has been asked about it, or bears any responsibility for what it says. The additions and corrections in this edition are the reviser’s, and so are their errors.

Image credits

These are reproduced here rather than left only on the original page, because the images they credit are still published in this edition.

Thank you to David Stern for the portrait, to Becky Smith for iconic artwork, and to Claire Jervis for the photos on pages ix, 31, 90, 95, 153, 245, 289, and 325. For other photos, thanks to Robert MacKay, Eric LeVin, Marcus Frean, Rosie Ward, Harry Bhadeshia, Catherine Huang, Yaan de Carlan, Pippa Swannell, Corinne Le Quéré, David Faiman, Kele Baker, Tim Jervis, and anonymous contributors to Wikipedia. MacKay was grateful to the office of the Mayor of London for providing copies of advertisements.

The artwork in chapter 31, “Maid in London,” and in chapter D, “Sunflowers,” is by Banksy, www.banksy.co.uk.

Figures carrying third-party rights that MacKay’s licence did not extend to — the Private Eye cartoons, named-photographer photographs, and the Ordnance Survey Crown Copyright maps — are omitted from this edition and marked in place.

This edition has not yet compiled acknowledgments of its own.