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Tony Seba: Clean Disruption - Energy & Transportation

Tony Seba: Clean Disruption - Energy & Transportation on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2017–2019.

Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES)

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Stanford futurist Tony Seba argues that electric vehicles, battery storage, solar and autonomous vehicles form a 10x exponential disruption that will make fossil fuels obsolete within about a decade. It draws on his Clean Disruption book.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters cite it as a big-picture case for exponential solar and EV adoption, usually with caveats about whether his predictions will hold.

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“Watch this youtube vide of Tony Seba”
— zuluwill, Sep 2017, in “WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton to leave company”

What HN commenters said

3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

zuluwillSep 2017Recommends

but hopefully coming down considerably. Watch this youtube vide of Tony Seba ▶ this video (Stanford University futurist Tony Seba spent the last decades studying technological disruptions. He argues that the Electric Vehicle, battery storage, and solar power, along with autonomous vehicles, are a perfect example of a 10x exponential process which will wipe )

in “WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton to leave company” · View on HN

tpkjMay 2019Cites it

We could be at the point where solar adoption takes off exponentially. On a big picture view: Tony Seba: Clean Disruption - Energy & Transportation ▶ this video On a more micro level view: Solar power solutions coming to places with no grid: [link]

in “Steep decline in nuclear power would threaten energy security and climate goals” · View on HN

jablJul 2017Cites it

Well, if (big IF ?!) Tony Seba is right, it'll all be over by 2030 anyway for traditional ICE cars (private ownership of ICE cars to be replaced by fleets of autonomic electrically powered taxis): ▶ this video

in “France to end sales of new petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040” · View on HN

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Renewables, batteries & storageCars, EVs & motorcyclesFuturism & technology and societysolar powerelectric vehiclesbattery storageautonomous vehiclestechnology disruption