If tony seba is correct, the texas and alberta economies just took a metaphorical bullet to the head. Free resources seba technology disruption framework booklet. Tony seba to speak at intersolar 2018 june 14, 2018 6. Tony seba is the author of clean disruption of energy and transportation, solar trillions 7 market and investment opportunities in the emerging cleanenergy economy and winner takes. Sebas book is a must for everyone who wants a clear understanding of clean energy.
Denial and disinformation centre for climate safety. Electric vehicles will kill global oil industry by 2030. His 2010 forecasts have been surprisingly accurate, particularly since organizations like the international energy agency iea and the u. For someone like tony seba, grid parity is just the start of a revolution that sees solar power as a kind of airbnb or uber of the energy industry, where its disruptive model can combine with battery storage and electric vehicles to completely change. How cheap solar energy is leading a power revolution. Pr solarfuturetoday solar will disrupt the energy space. May 31, 2018, toronto, canada tony will keynote at the red talks 2018 demography collision vancouver welcomes the most successful global thought leaders, real estate and development influencers and industry innovators to share concepts that impact our city now and into the future. The stone age did not end because we ran out of rocks.
Clean disruption does to the future of energy and transportation what mits nicholas negropontes being digital did for the internet era. The industrial age of energy and transportation will be over by 2030. Clean disruption transportation tony seba ca transport tech forum sacramento 3aug2017 created date. Rethinking transportation by tony seba worldoutofwhack. Negroponte explored the advantage of bits over atoms. Seba predicted in his 2009 book solar trillions that the cost of unsubsidized solar energy would be as low as 3. In his previous book, solar trillions, tony seba already considered the rapid, even exponential, growth of solar energy. Furthermore he provides the latest insights into autonomous vehicles which may be hired uber style at the touch of a button. Tony seba author of clean disruption of energy and. Will the emerging electric vehicle transportation as a service business model kill the global oil industry in 10 years. But those projected developments arent just in the residential energy sphere. Tony seba explores the advantage of photons and bits over atoms.
By 2030, within 10 years of regulatory approval of autonomous vehicles avs, 95% of u. Exponentially improving technologies such as solar, electric vehicles, and autonomous selfdriving cars will disrupt and sweep away the energy and transportation industries as we know it. Internationally sought after speaker and disruption guru tony seba will help entrepreneurs and businesses plan for this future. Additional gift options are available when buying one ebook at a time. He is also the author of clean disruption of energy and transportation, solar trillions and winners take all. Solar trillions 7 market and investment opportunities in the emerging cleanenergy economy. Tony seba, clean disruption of energy and transportation. Once this virtuous cycle reaches critical mass, market growth will accelerate. Solar trillions 7 market and investment opportunities in. Tony seba is a worldrenowned thought leader, author, speaker, educator and entrepreneur. With the prices of solar and electric vehicle ev batteries predicted to continue falling even as the cost of fossil fuels rises, many industry experts including tony seba, author of solar trillions are forecasting the inevitable rise of solar power in consumer and industrial markets. Solar costs go down while conventional power costs historically. Like mobile phones, personal computers and the internet in the 80s and 90s, solar is growing exponentially and it will soon grab a large share of the energy market.
Rethinking transportation 20202030 language selection. Sebas solar revolution part 4 a question of where and. At the time of tony sebas presentation, solar represented 1. Tony seba is a lecturer in entrepreneurship, disruption and clean energy at stanford university, a serial silicon valley entrepreneur and author of clean disruption of energy and transportation, solar trillions and winners take all. Online course stanford continuing studies stanford.
Stanford university futurist tony seba spent the last decades studying technological disruptions. Stanford university futurist tony seba spent the last decades. How silicon valley will make oil, nuclear, natural gas, coal. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Solar trillions 7 market and investment opportunities. Its interesting that in sebas book solar trillions that came out in 2010 shortly after mackays without the hot air seba expected solar to hit 3. Here is how solar, electric selfdriving cars and other exponential technologies. How silicon valley will make oil, nuclear, natural gas, coal, electric utilities and conventional cars obsolete by 2030 seba, tony on. The future of cars could be solar renewable energy world.
Tony seba charts out the disruptive path forward to evs. How silicon valley will make oil, nuclear, natural gas, coal, electric utilities and conventional cars obsolete by 2030 beta by tony seba isbn. Tony seba picks apart the economics of the oil, gas, biofuel and nuclear sources of energy while plugging a case for solar predominantly and wind. The author shows immediate as well as longterm market opportunities and why science facts and tech trends make solar inevitable. Copyright 2016 tony seba storage disruption grid scale the grid works like a justintime supply chain without inventory grid. Tony seba is also the author of solar trillions 7 market and. Tony will be one of the keynote speakers during the. Department of energy doe energy information administration eia. Tony seba took the stage at revolution 2018 in amsterdam to share a tale of two technological disruptions in cleantech that we are currently living through and a look at the adoption curves that. Island and village scale solar solar industrial process heat state of the art, european solar thermal industry federation. Tony seba is a silicon valley serial entrepreneur in.
Written by tony seba, a high tech entrepreneur and stanford university lecturer, this book is an easytoread guide to the strategies, tools, templates, and stepbystep implementation frameworks that recent silicon valley winners have used. Tony seba, an energy expert from stanford university, author of solar trillions in 1982, exxons researchers concluded that we need to leave 80% of the worlds fossil fuels under ground in order to stop climate catastrophe. Here are the seven amazing opportunities he exploresand some equally amazing facts about energy. Compared with tony sebas claim of 100% solar by 2030 across the entire energy spectrum, it doesnt seem so aggressive, but lets put that to one side. Solar will become unstoppable and the incumbents will be disrupted. Download solar trillions download winners take all. How silicon valley will make oil, nuclear, natural gas, coal, electric utilities and conventional cars obsolete by 2030.
Tony seba 2010 and 2014, expects solar energy to become a trillion dollar industry, and by 2030 seba expects evs and renewable energy to take over and be the most attractive options. Tony seba the edge of disruption, automotive, petroleum. The author shows why solar is the only clean energy source that can scale and why disruptive tech make it inevitable. The author shows immediate as well as longterm market opportunities and why. Solar trillions shows why solar is the only clean energy source that can scale to meet global needs and explores the disruptive characteristics that make solar technology inevitable. Executive summary we are on the cusp of one of the fastest, deepest, most consequential disruptions of transportation in history. In the post im writing ill pick out the actual quotes, but basically mackay believed solar pv just couldnt get cheap enough. Solar is on the cusp of disrupting the worlds largest industry, says tony seba, stanford lecturer, silicon valley entrepreneur and author of solar trillions and clean disruption, which made it to number 3 on amazons best seller list of oil and energy ebooks. In a post in november, energy matters took umbrage over the spanish governments claim and proceeded to show why such a. How solar and evs will kill the last of the industry dinosaurs. Globally, solar installations have doubled every 2 years since 2000.
I will provide free pdf copies of the assigned chapters of my books. Winners take all the 9 fundamental rules of high tech strategy book summary. He argues that the electric vehicle, battery storage, and solar power, along with autonomous. Pdf winners take all the 9 fundamental rules of high. Winners take all is about building a product and a company into a winner. Unsubsidized rooftop solar will be cheaper than the cost of transmission making central generation obsolete.