Download e-book for kindle: Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation: How Silicon by Tony Seba

the commercial age of power and transportation can be over by way of 2030. probably earlier than. Exponentially bettering applied sciences akin to sunlight, electrical cars, and self sufficient (self-driving) vehicles will disrupt and sweep away the strength and transportation industries as we all know it. a similar Silicon Valley environment that created bit-based applied sciences that experience disrupted atom-based industries is now developing bit- and electron-based applied sciences that may disrupt atom-based strength industries.

Clean Disruption projections (based on know-how expense curves, enterprise version innovation in addition to product innovation) express that through 2030:
- All new strength could be supplied by means of sun or wind.
- All new mass-market autos should be electric.
- All of those automobiles could be self sustaining (self-driving) or semi-autonomous.
- the hot automobile industry will lessen by means of 80%.
- Even assuming that EVs do not kill the fuel automobile by means of 2030, the self-driving motor vehicle will cut down the hot automobile marketplace by way of 80%.
- fuel could be out of date. Nuclear is already obsolete.
- as much as eighty% of highways can be redundant.
- as much as eighty% of parking areas might be redundant.
- the idea that of person motor vehicle possession may be obsolete.
- the auto assurance may be disrupted.

The Stone Age didn't finish simply because we ran out of rocks. It ended simply because a disruptive expertise ushered within the Bronze Age. The period of centralized, command-and-control, extraction-resource-based power assets (oil, fuel, coal and nuclear) won't finish simply because we run out of petroleum, common fuel, coal, or uranium. it's going to finish simply because those strength resources, the company versions they hire, and the goods that maintain them can be disrupted by means of more suitable applied sciences, product architectures, and enterprise versions.

This is a technology-based disruption akin to how the cellphone, web, and private desktop swept away industries reminiscent of landline telephony, publishing, and mainframe pcs. similar to these expertise disruptions flipped the structure of data and taken plentiful, affordable and participatory info, the fresh disruption will turn the structure of strength and convey ample, affordable and participatory strength. similar to these past know-how disruptions, the fresh disruption is inevitable and it'll be swift.