The video of Tony Seba’s Clean Disruption Keynote presentation at the Swedbank Nordic Energy Summit in Oslo, Norway, March 17th, 2016 will be shown at April Forum.
The keynote, based on the book ‘Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation’ assert that four technology categories will disrupt energy and transportation by:
- Batteries / Energy Storage
- Electric Vehicles
- Self-Driving Vehicles
- Solar Energy
The outcome of the Clean Disruption is that by 2030
- All new vehicles will be electric.
- All new vehicles will be autonomous (self-driving).
- Oil will be obsolete
- Coal, natural gas and nuclear will be obsolete
- 80+ per cent of parking spaces will be obsolete
- Individual car ownership will be obsolete
- All new energy will be provided by solar (and wind)
Clean Disruption is a technology disruption. Just like digital cameras disrupted film and the web disrupted publishing, Clean Disruption is inevitable and it will be swift.
SLA has been holding monthly open forums for ten years, with a wide range of interesting topics. Everyone is welcome to attend. The Forum “Tony Seba’s Clean Disruption” is on Thursday 6th March, 7pm at Kent House, 141 Faulkner Street, opposite Central Park. Light refreshments to follow, gold coin donation.
It’s great to know that the change to clean power will happen a lot sooner than people think! I recommended Tony Seba’s video after watching it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxryv2XrnqM – and was interested to see how the Powerwall is made.
The political deal for a solar thermal electricity plant in SA is also great news for the transition to clean power. The front runner is the 110 MW solar tower & molten salt storage proposal by US company SolarReserve, which has plans to build 5 more large solar thermal + molten salt storage plants in SA to provide the grid with clean, dispatchable electricity – reneweconomy.com.au/coalition-commits-110m-for-port-augusta-solar-towers-11045/
The only problem is that we still also need “Immediate action to cut four super pollutants which represent the difference between a reasonably safe climate and one that carries staggering human and financial costs.”
http://www.theenergycollective.com/durwood-zaelke/2376628/paris-deals-carbon-cuts-miss-critical-warming-target
Three experts – a Nobel prizewinner, a renowned climate scientist and sustainability guru explains: “These four super pollutants are between 28 and 4,000 times more potent warmers than carbon dioxide. And because they are short-lived, slowing their release into the atmosphere can curb warming quickly … Slashing super pollutants could reduce the rate of warming by as much as 50% in the critical period from today to 2050.”
Recommendations to reduce super-pollutant emissions in developed countries include preventing methane leaks from pipelines and coal and gas production (fracking is a major potential source), banning open burning of agricultural and biomass waste and phasing out log-burning stoves (Armidale would appear to be one of the worst per-capita super-pollutant emitters).
A 50 second video from the New Scientist says it all – that log-burning stoves are damaging our health and speeding up global warming -www.facebook.com/newscientist/videos/10155097669589589/