Ask HN: Book recommendations for renewable energy and climate change?

This is really outdated, so unless you want to marvel at how wrong even a smart and well-meaning person could be in the face of rapid technological change, probably not worth revisiting.

There's been a few attempts to update it with modern numbers but they're so different it effectively nullifies the whole point of the book.

It doesn't seem smart to me to take advice from a got-lucky, business billionaire that brought us Windows, with a cult following and marketing power of a country, than any run-of-the-mill real scientist.

I found a typo in one of his solar calculations, which seemed weird given how influential the book is going to be.

While certainly a classic and highly influential book in the field, be aware that it is very out of date and based on 15+ year old data. This means that most of the conclusions the book comes too are no longer necessarily relevant or correct. So read it more as a historical snapshot of the thinking of the time as opposed to a guide to relevant energy policies in todays climate.