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Clean Disruption - Why Energy & Transportation will be Obsolete by 2030 - Oslo, March 2016

Tony Seba's 2016 keynote argues that batteries, electric vehicles, self-driving cars and solar will converge to disrupt energy and transportation. He predicts by 2030 all new vehicles will be electric and autonomous and that oil and other fossil fuels will be obsolete.

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Why HN readers recommended it

Cited as a well-argued case that solar plus batteries and EVs will reach a tipping point sooner than mainstream forecasts expect.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Tony Seba
Topic
energy and transportation disruption
Format
talk
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
6
Recommendation years in dataset
2016–2018

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • As solar energy costs drop below those of fossil fuels [1], its seems possible that for a few trillion, some kind of sequestration would be possible. One could imagine entire PV farms devoted solely to restoration of the atmosphere to pre-industrial levels, for example. In …

    b_emery on Hacker News · 2016-09
    In How to Raise Trillions for Green Investments

  • There's an excellent talk by Tony Seba at the Nordic Enegy Summit that goes into more depth about how batteries and solar are quite possibly going to reach the tipping point sooner than anyone has been forecasting: [VIDEO]

    spditner on Hacker News · 2016-10
    In Battery technology may emerge as a trillion-dollar threat to credit markets

  • Another way to look at it: how big is the global market for gas peaker plants? If current trends continue, solar PV + batteries will be cheaper at some point than any fossil fuel[1], so at that point Telsa energy will begin to consume large …

    patrickk on Hacker News · 2017-02
    In Tesla Says Model 3 on Track as Quarterly Loss Beats Estimates

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