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

by Tony Seba

The conventional energy model is about Big Banks financing Big Energy to build Big Power Plants or refineries in a few selected places. The new architecture is about everyone financing everyone to build smaller, distributed power plants everywhere.

The clean disruption will be about abundant, cheap, and participatory energy. The existing energy business model is based on scarcity, depletion, and command-and-control monopolies.

We still have vinyl records, sailboats and jukeboxes. These niche market products will survive, but energy and transportation will not be the multi-trillion dollar energy heavyweights that they are today.

In twenty years we’ll wonder how we put up with the horrendous consequences of the incumbent, conventional, $8 trillion-a-year energy industry.

Silicon Valley is about abundance, business model innovation, participatory culture, and democratizing power. Resource energy is about scarcity, extractive thinking, hierarchical culture and centralized power.

Internal combustion engine car companies will have their Kodak moment sooner than they think. By 2025, gasoline engine cars will be unable to compete with electric vehicles.