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# Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation: How Silicon Valley Will Make Oil, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Electric Utilities and Conventional Cars Obsolete by 2030

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Review: A must read for those looking for hope for the future - This book provides convincing arguments about how the meteoric increase in technology will displace traditional energy and transportation systems and therefore change the very foundations of our societies. Tony Seba points out that the rise in affordable solar power and self-driving vehicles will leave traditional fossil-fuel based energy systems and large hydro-electric developments behind, not because we run out of oil,but because these new technologies are significantly cheaper and better. He uses the examples of moving from the stone age to the bronze age, or the film camera age to the digital camera age, not because we ran out of stones or film, but because significantly better technologies came along.
Review: Actually an exciting read, but sometimes Seba disrupts himself! - PROS: 1. I completely agree with almost everything. I'm particularly pleased to see Seba has not fallen for the hydrogen mirage. (If efficiency can be radically increased, someday I may be a fan of H2, but I'm not holding my breath.) 2. Unlike some authors, he doesn't give a heavy barrage of cute storytelling about the personalities and history, except where it's really relevant. 3. The book is obviously a polemic of sorts, but at least Seba doesn't go off on any diatribes about tangential political matters. CONS: 1. The graphics are just abominable. Some of the most important figures are not even readable. Heck, such spectacular stuff should be in color. 2. The copy editing is also awful. Misspellings, wrong word choices, often even entire missing words, or phrases that amount to gibberish. If the missing word is something like "billion," then it really matters! 3. As others have said, yes, by now it's out of date. Then again, the way things are going, I suppose it was inevitable. (I assume there's a blog.) 4. Just a suggestion, but something might also be added about what happens AFTER 2030. I could see PV being so cheap as to actually create problems, such as "satisficing" leading to stagnating progress in energy efficiency and other improvements. And with, say, a quadrilllion watts of cheap electrical capacity, what would we do with all that power? Capitalism being what it is, I'm sure there will be no problem coming up with uses. But with the clean energy transition accelerating faster than Ludicrous Mode in a Tesla, such thinking may be lagging behind developments.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #848,194 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #6 in Coal Energy #12 in Natural Gas Energy #144 in Oil & Energy Industry (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (644) |
| Dimensions  | 6 x 0.66 x 9 inches |
| Edition  | Beta |
| ISBN-10  | 0692210539 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0692210536 |
| Item Weight  | 13.8 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 290 pages |
| Publication date  | May 20, 2014 |
| Publisher  | Tony Seba |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A must read for those looking for hope for the future
*by D***R on February 3, 2015*

This book provides convincing arguments about how the meteoric increase in technology will displace traditional energy and transportation systems and therefore change the very foundations of our societies. Tony Seba points out that the rise in affordable solar power and self-driving vehicles will leave traditional fossil-fuel based energy systems and large hydro-electric developments behind, not because we run out of oil,but because these new technologies are significantly cheaper and better. He uses the examples of moving from the stone age to the bronze age, or the film camera age to the digital camera age, not because we ran out of stones or film, but because significantly better technologies came along.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Actually an exciting read, but sometimes Seba disrupts himself!
*by R***N on January 29, 2017*

PROS: 1. I completely agree with almost everything. I'm particularly pleased to see Seba has not fallen for the hydrogen mirage. (If efficiency can be radically increased, someday I may be a fan of H2, but I'm not holding my breath.) 2. Unlike some authors, he doesn't give a heavy barrage of cute storytelling about the personalities and history, except where it's really relevant. 3. The book is obviously a polemic of sorts, but at least Seba doesn't go off on any diatribes about tangential political matters. CONS: 1. The graphics are just abominable. Some of the most important figures are not even readable. Heck, such spectacular stuff should be in color. 2. The copy editing is also awful. Misspellings, wrong word choices, often even entire missing words, or phrases that amount to gibberish. If the missing word is something like "billion," then it really matters! 3. As others have said, yes, by now it's out of date. Then again, the way things are going, I suppose it was inevitable. (I assume there's a blog.) 4. Just a suggestion, but something might also be added about what happens AFTER 2030. I could see PV being so cheap as to actually create problems, such as "satisficing" leading to stagnating progress in energy efficiency and other improvements. And with, say, a quadrilllion watts of cheap electrical capacity, what would we do with all that power? Capitalism being what it is, I'm sure there will be no problem coming up with uses. But with the clean energy transition accelerating faster than Ludicrous Mode in a Tesla, such thinking may be lagging behind developments.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ like San Diego SDG&E disrupts power to 115
*by H***. on March 15, 2016*

I am the CEO and founder of Heart Transverter (...) and have been very actively involved in the very processes you so eloquently describe in your book. I started as a nuclear physicist but, as my eyes opened a little wider, realized the ultimate non-sustainable and very dangerous aspects inherent to nuclear energy and switched fields and ended up creating the inverter market. By the late seventies I was 100% in line with the conclusions of your book and have worked since to help them unfold as gracefully as possible. Some of the technical concepts I lay out here could be viewed as mere details of your premise but they actually are essential to the core concepts. In order for Solar Energy to be significant, from an ecological point of view, it has to be scalable and in its present form it can't really scale past about 15%. In order to be scalable it has to integrate energy storage and monitor and control all major loads in the home or business. The Transverter technology was designed to do just that. Read The Solarized Grid and watch Heart Transverter: OSIsoft Presentation for High-density Solar Integration on the Distribution Grid. When I created the inverter market by founding companies that are now owned by Schneider we realized transitioning to clean sustainable energy would be a long and complex path and grid tied residential solar did perform a critical step in that it demonstrated some scale and got the prices of solar down. Things really are evolving quickly in the Utility and Distributed Generation spaces. You are, of course, used to the mushrooming opportunity being addressed by many players Beyond Sprawl: A New Vision of the Future. Problem is this is causing enormous problems for the Utility companies and these problems are based on hard science and engineering, not just the utility's fear of losing market share. All you have to do is look into high solar integration areas, like San Diego SDG&E disrupts power to 115,000 to avoid wider blackouts. This is an interaction between CAISO and SDG&E and it is driven by the increasing need for spinning reserves caused by intermittent renewable sources, like solar, and increasing percentages of electronic loads. The Hawaiian solar market is in turmoil from this as is the German market. See Hawaii PUC chair defends landmark decision to end retail rate net metering. The economics of the different areas differ but the science is the same and the problem will only increase with more solar penetration. Private sector PPA's like Solar City & Vivint are used to competition but there is a new type of competitor emerging, the Utility company itself Big utilities enter market for small rooftop solar. The Utility companies understand the science behind these problems and value the solutions and can streamline integrating the benefits of ultra smart solar. The Utility, viewed as a competitor to PPA's, has the potential of having the upper hand as they can influence standards, laws and regulations as you have already seen in Hawaii, California, Nevada Louisiana and even Maine. Maine Utility Wants to End 'Net Metering' Policy. Rules, laws and regulations are always changing. If your effect is creating or magnifying problems then they will probably change against you. This can be seen with net metering being used by some to 100% offset the grid meaning that the grid has no revenue stream even though they still need to provide night time generation and an entire stabilizing grid structure and this drives things like Solar battle is on in the last state you'd expect. If you are solving the problems and, of course, waving your flag, then it is reasonable to expect the rules, laws and regulations to change to your benefit. This is already impacting the large PPA's SolarCity Inevitable Downward Spiral Has Begun and we are actively involved with presenting a solution through the mess that has been created. This rapid solarization has run into a brick wall as is evidenced by Sun Edison's difficulty with trying to acquire Vivint SunEdison's Troubles Are Far From Over and this is all with electric vehicles just starting to become significant. It is becoming clear that TOU (Time Of Use) rates being adjusted often with bi-directional energy flow being encouraged is not only interesting, but probably the only viable solution. This paves the way for EV batteries becoming the dominant energy storage asset for the utility, the home and the microgrid. Time Of Use rates should be implemented everywhere (worldwide) with the rates adjusted at least once a month and everyone should be encouraged to use them in both directions. This is like giving everyone Net Metering coupled with TOU with no limits. This, by itself, could provide absolutely the quickest path to a sustainable solution. TOU rates should even be allowed to go negative if needed. This would provide the needed investment to solve the energy storage issue and would automatically always be a good deal for everyone, the utility company, the truck driver, the home owner, etc. As the technology matures and sustainability approaches, the rates would always adjust to the new environment. For example, high integration solar would dominate the TOU rates (like has already happened in Hawaii) where the lowest rates would be in the middle of the day when people were at work and the highest rates in the early evening. Their EV's in the work place parking lot would be storing the cheap solar energy into their batteries and, in the evening, these EV's would be parked at their home and would make this same stored energy available. TOU rates would make it profitable.

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