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Optimistic Storm

End of Fossil Fuel Era, Food to feed all, restore our environment

  • Renewable Energy

    • Renewable Energy – Stop Burning Rocks

      • Renewable Energy by 2025
      • V2G Disrupts Electricity
      • Increasing Renewable Energy
      • Stop Burning Rocks for Energy
      • Recycling Solar & Turbines
      • LCA Carbon Footprint of Wind
      • LCA Carbon Footprint for Solar Panels
      • Underwater Power Cables
      • Offshore Wind Technology
      • OffGrid Electricity
      • Geothermal Energy
      • Project Innerspace Geothermal
      • Coal Mine Replacement
      • Ownership Australias Grid
      • China Renewable Energy Plan
      • Wind Turbines & Bird Kill
      • Thin Film Low Cost Solar
      • Electrical Management Systems
      • Coal Going Going Gone
      • Estimates of RE Overstated
      • Synthetic Biofuels Using Bacteria
      • Terraform’s Innovative Methane E-fuel
      • Hydropower Reductions
      • India PV Manufacturing Targets
      • PV Panels Supply Booming
      • Concentrated Solar CSP
      • France Solar Carparks vs Nuclear
      • Baseload to Dispatchable – Transforming Electricity
      • Increased Solar Efficiency with Perovskite
      • Green Methanol: A Potential Clean Fuel Solution
      • Comparison of Synthetic Ethanol and Methanol
      • USA Electricity Is Going Renewable
      • Tidal & Wave Power
      • China’s Energy Megabase Plan 
      • Chinese Coal Drops 70% -45% by 2030
      • 153 Countries 100% Renewable Energy
      • Enough Solar Panels for 100% Electricity in 4 Years
      • Coal to Build Wind Turbines
      • Wind Prices Falling
      • Q&A Renewable Energy
      • Renters Balcony Solar Battery
      • Reclaiming Sovereignty When Fossil Fuel is Gone
      • Inertia In Electricity Grids
      • 97% or 100% for Net Zero
  • EV

    • Electric Vehicles

      • Global Car Sales
      • 10 Electric Vehicle Myths
      • EV Pickups are Coming
      • EVs Increasing
      • EV Replaces Petrol Imports
      • EU Bans ICE Vehicles by 2035
      • EV Charging Stations
      • End of ICE Cars in California
      • EV Adoption Increased in 2022
      • EV Startups going Broke
      • Best-Selling Vehicles USA 2022
      • Top 20 China EV Manufacturers
      • EV Surges 2023 Q1
      • Fully Electric or Hybrid
      • Electric Trucks Are Here
      • Tesla Semi Compelling Economics
      • Electric Buses Save Money
      • Electric Motorcycles Coming
      • EV Scooters Rapid Increase
      • Electric Tractor Models
      • Electric Boats
      • Electric Ships
      • Cruise Ships are bad polluters
      • Electric Bus Rapid Growth
      • Smartphone Maker Making Cars
      • EV Mining Equipment
      • Fuel and Labour Truck Costs in Australia
      • EV Truck Uptake is Surging
  • Robotaxi

    • AV & Robotaxis

      • AVs by 2023
      • AVs saves lives
      • AV Manufacturers 2022
      • Tesla makes AVs Economic
      • Robotaxis not Rail for Sunshine Coast
      • Tesla Robotaxi Finance Model
      • Tesla FSD Improvement 2024
      • AI Accelerates Autonomous Driving
      • BYD Autonomous Vehicles
  • Climate Change

    • Climate Change

      • 100% Renewable Energy in 6 years
      • FF Subsidies $11m per min
      • Green Energy saves $5400
      • Cut 2 percent GDP Fossil Fuel Subsidies
      • 2 Percent GDP for Net Zero
      • 15 GreenWashing Claims
      • 5 Signs of Climate Deniers
      • 10 CC Denier Arguments
      • Fossil Fuel Company Lies
      • Fossil Fuel Subsidies Killing Our Earth
      • GeoEngineering Climate
      • Coal Mine Replacement
      • Recycling is Poor
      • Sea Level Rises Inevitable
      • Mines Reduce by 80%
      • Synthetic Biofuels Using Bacteria
      • Sustainable Aviation Fuels Unrealistic
      • Ethanol Worse than Gasoline
      • Direct Air Capture Unproven
      • Carbon Capture and Storage Fail
      • Low Investment in RE by Big Oil
      • Arctic Ice Cover Gone in 20 Years
      • Heat Pumps For Energy Savings
      • USA Inflation Reduction Act
      • Uninsurable Due To Climate Change
      • Zero Emission Shipping by 2050
      • Electrifying Shipping Ports
      • Cruise Ships – bad polluters
      • Ship Emissions Halve
      • OPEC Countries Anti-Climate Change Actions
      • Carbon Capture for Ethanol
      • High-Intensity Rain Storms
      • Non-CO2 Emissions Easier To Abate Than CO2
      • Green Steel Easy to Abate?
      • AMOC Tipping Point
      • New Vehicle Efficiency Standard Oz
      • 100 Companies Responsible for 71% of Emissions
      • 100 Companies Reducing 71% of Emissions
      • Scary Climate Change
      • Earth Energy Imbalance Visualization
      • Climate Refugees Increasing 41%
      • 3°C Climate Change Costs 36% of GDP
      • 2024 State of the Climate
      • Lignin Replacing Plastic
      • EVs Save Emissions Using Gas
      • Why USA Leaving Climate Talks is Good
      • 20 companies create 40 percent of emissions
      • Lethal Humidity
      • Queensland Gas Companies Pay Zero Tax
  • Minerals

    • Minerals for New Energy

      • Graphite for Batteries
      • Cobalt in Batteries
      • Nickel in Batteries
      • Rare Earth Elements
      • Platinum Group Metals (PGM)
      • Copper Demand
      • Green Steel Technology
      • Green Steel with Carbon Capture
      • Green Steel From Fortescue
      • Green Aluminium is Easy
      • Agromining Minerals
      • Steel from Aluminium Waste
      • Molten Oxide Electrolysis
  • Lithium

    • Lithium

      • Lithium amount in EV battery
      • Enough Lithium Supply?
      • Direct Lithium Extraction
      • Lithium Shortfall for GigaFactories
      • Top 8 Lithium Miners by 2024
      • Lithium from Chile
      • Lithium From Seawater Demonstrated
      • Top 20 LiOn Battery Manufacturers
  • Nuclear

    • Nuclear Power

      • Nuclear Power Not An Option
      • 15 Myths of Nuclear Power
      • RE cheaper than Nuclear
      • Nuclear SMR Reactors
      • Small Power – Not Nuclear
      • France Nuclear misinformation
      • Nuclear Waste Problem
      • Huge Nuclear Subsidies
      • LCA Carbon Footprint Nuclear
      • Uranium Mining
      • Nuclear Waste Overstated
      • Nuclear Proponents Lack Economics
      • Nuclear Renaissance v4.0
      • Fusion or Fiction
      • UK Nuclear vs Wind Electricity Cost
      • France Solar Carparks vs Nuclear
      • UAE Nuclear – not Poster example
      • Advances in Thorium Nuclear Reactors
      • Nuclear is Not Safe
      • Ontario Nuclear: Debunking Costly Myths
      • Low Dose Radiation From Nuclear Accidents
      • Tarong Nuclear and Accident Impacts
  • Batteries

    • Batteries

      • Community Battery Storage
      • European Battery Gigafactories
      • USA Battery Gigafactories
      • China Battery Gigafactories
      • Battery Gigafactories
      • Lithium Battery Improvements
      • Pumped Hydro as a Battery
      • Batteries 300TWh
      • Top 2 EV Batteries Globally
      • Lithium amount in EV battery
      • CO2 Battery Technology
      • Tesla Grid & Home Batteries
      • Combo Battery 1200km
      • Tesa Grid-Scale Batteries
      • Batteries win Transport
      • Flow Batteries – Vn, Fe Zn HBr
      • Sodium-Iron Battery for EVs
      • Nano Silicon Anode for Batteries
      • Gravity Batteries With Heavy Blocks
      • Compressed Air Battery Technology
      • Queensland Pumped Hydro Proposals
      • Liquid Metals Battery
      • Iron Air Batteries
      • Graphene Aluminium-Ion Batteries
      • New Chemistry Battery Comparison
      • Nickel Hydrogen Battery
      • 15 Minute Charging Batteries
      • Elements in Batteries
      • Toyota’s Failure With Solid State Batteries
      • Ten Solid State Battery Announcements
      • Batteries Mounted on Power Poles
      • 1000-Mile Battery Innovations
      • Batteries Last 40 Years
      • 25 Factors in Battery Systems
      • Batteries End Fossil Fuel Era
      • Group14 Silicon Anodes
      • Building a Battery Future
  • Technology

    • Technology and Innovation

      • 5G Explained
      • Mobile Phones Are Global
      • 8 Steps for Websites Prep
      • VC Funding for Innovation or Angel or 3’Fs
      • Goal Setting Questions
      • Goal Setting
      • Business Consulting
      • Customer Acquisition / Life Time Value
      • Improve Productivity
      • Genealogy Software
  • Hydrogen

    • Green Hydrogen

      • H2 Myths and Opportunities
      • Ten Reasons H2 Cars are Dead
      • New H2 Technologies
      • Green H2 Opportunities
      • H2 Storage & Transport Problems
      • Hydrogen Battery Storage
      • Hydrogen Cult Madness
      • Hydrogen Motorcycle Engines
      • H2 Not for Home Heating
      • Hydrogen Bus Trials
      • H2 Trains Uneconomic
      • Is $7B For Hydrogen Sheer Folly?
      • Cheaper Hydrogen Electrolyzers
      • Hydrogen Buses Fail Economics
      • Hydrogen Thoughts Distilled – Paul Martin
      • Unrealistic 2030 Hydrogen Goals
      • Australia’s Hydrogen Superpower Vision
      • Nitrogen Fertilizer H2 Replaced by AI and Bacteria
      • Stellantis Flawed Hydrogen Strategy
      • Hydrogen Dead End in China
      • Geologic or Gold Hydrogen
      • Hydrogen is a Greenhouse Gas
      • Green Hydrogen Progress from Fortescue
  • AI & Robots

    • Ai & Robotics

      • AI Economic Improvement In Knowledge Workers
      • Will Robots take our Jobs?
      • Disruption with ChatGPT
      • Bard AI Model from Google
      • Robotic Surgery Revolution
      • Value of Humanoid Robots
      • Robots for Airplanes
      • Tesla Optimus Robot is Closer to Reality
      • Humanoid Robots To Watch in 2024
      • Impact of AI on Job Creation and Disruption
      • Custom Design AI Compute Chips
      • Breakthrough AI Geometry
      • Tesla Optimus Robot Worth $10t by 2030
      • Fitness Wearables For Disease Prevention
      • Electricity for AI Exceeds Transportation
      • Nvidia AI Announcements at CES 2025
  • Disruption

    • Disruption

      • 3 Disruptions 8 Technologies by Tony Seba
      • 5 Disruptions by Cathie Wood
      • 5 Orders of Innovation
      • Faster Horse Fallacy – Experts Get it Wrong
      • Butterfly Not a Caterpillar with Wings
      • Simple Power by Freeing Energy
      • Changes to Society from Disruptions
      • 100% Renewable Energy, 145 Countries, 6 Years
      • Recycling Effectiveness is Poor
      • Top 15 GreenWashing Claims
      • Fossil Fuel Excess Profits of $134b
      • Toyota No-EV Strategy Risks Japan’s Economy
      • Toroid Propeller Design
      • Chinese Cars are Coming to UK
      • IEA Forecasts Wrong by 7 Times
      • Active Transport Challenges
      • Prof Ray Wills Rapid EV Rise
      • Exponential Battery Growth is Underway
      • Paraplegics Walking Again
      • Bloomberg Vehicle Outlook: Out by 20 years
      • Nitrogen Fertilizer Replaced by AI and Bacteria
      • Energy Breakthroughs Drives Transportation
      • Mistrust in Science Increasing
  • Tesla News

    • Tesla News

      • Tesla Supercharger Billion Dollar Returns
      • Tesla Masterplan Three 2023
      • Is Tesla Market Cap Too High
      • Tesla Insurance Opportunity
      • Tesla makes Robotaxis Economic
      • Grid Batteries Rapid Increase
      • Tesla 4680 Battery Ramp
      • Ten Cybertruck Features
      • Tesla 4680 Battery Details
      • Tesla 2024 Predictions by Analysts
      • Can Legacy Automakers Ever Catch Tesla?
      • Tesla Achievements 2018 to 2024
      • Announcements From Tesla Q3 2024
      • Tesla Earnings Call Q4-2024 Summary
  • Electric Planes

    • Electric Planes

      • Electric Airplanes Flying Soon
      • Electric Planes from Wright Progressing
      • Robots for Airplanes With ChatGPT
      • Pipistrel Electric Plane
      • eVTol the End of Helicopters
  • Food Disruption

    • Food Disruption

      • Sweeteners from Precision Fermentation
      • Moos Law for Food Disruption
      • Food Disruption Impacts
      • Food and Agriculture Disruption by Fermentation
      • Food Disruption is Happening
      • Food from Coal
      • Precision Fermentation Food Cost-Competitive
      • Precision Fermentation Q&A
      • George Monbiot Precision Fermentation
  • Health

    • Health

      • Earth’s Population is Too High
      • Zero Population Growth & Carrying Capacity
      • Dementia Diagnosis and Treatment Advances
      • Fitness Wearables For Disease Prevention
      • Vaccines Saved 154 million Lives
      • Obesity GLP-1 Drug Use
      • Ozempic and GLP-1 Drugs
      • Human Cell Atlas
      • Long Covid Impacts
      • Statin Effectiveness in Older People 
      • Covid Reduces IQ
      • AI Accelerates Drug Discovery
      • Human 3D Organoids
      • AI Helps Us Live Longer
  • Waste
  • All Blogs
Commercialising innovative technologies
Optimistic Storm

End of Fossil Fuel Era, Food to feed all, restore our environment

  • Renewable Energy

    • Renewable Energy – Stop Burning Rocks

      • Renewable Energy by 2025
      • V2G Disrupts Electricity
      • Increasing Renewable Energy
      • Stop Burning Rocks for Energy
      • Recycling Solar & Turbines
      • LCA Carbon Footprint of Wind
      • LCA Carbon Footprint for Solar Panels
      • Underwater Power Cables
      • Offshore Wind Technology
      • OffGrid Electricity
      • Geothermal Energy
      • Project Innerspace Geothermal
      • Coal Mine Replacement
      • Ownership Australias Grid
      • China Renewable Energy Plan
      • Wind Turbines & Bird Kill
      • Thin Film Low Cost Solar
      • Electrical Management Systems
      • Coal Going Going Gone
      • Estimates of RE Overstated
      • Synthetic Biofuels Using Bacteria
      • Terraform’s Innovative Methane E-fuel
      • Hydropower Reductions
      • India PV Manufacturing Targets
      • PV Panels Supply Booming
      • Concentrated Solar CSP
      • France Solar Carparks vs Nuclear
      • Baseload to Dispatchable – Transforming Electricity
      • Increased Solar Efficiency with Perovskite
      • Green Methanol: A Potential Clean Fuel Solution
      • Comparison of Synthetic Ethanol and Methanol
      • USA Electricity Is Going Renewable
      • Tidal & Wave Power
      • China’s Energy Megabase Plan 
      • Chinese Coal Drops 70% -45% by 2030
      • 153 Countries 100% Renewable Energy
      • Enough Solar Panels for 100% Electricity in 4 Years
      • Coal to Build Wind Turbines
      • Wind Prices Falling
      • Q&A Renewable Energy
      • Renters Balcony Solar Battery
      • Reclaiming Sovereignty When Fossil Fuel is Gone
      • Inertia In Electricity Grids
      • 97% or 100% for Net Zero
  • EV

    • Electric Vehicles

      • Global Car Sales
      • 10 Electric Vehicle Myths
      • EV Pickups are Coming
      • EVs Increasing
      • EV Replaces Petrol Imports
      • EU Bans ICE Vehicles by 2035
      • EV Charging Stations
      • End of ICE Cars in California
      • EV Adoption Increased in 2022
      • EV Startups going Broke
      • Best-Selling Vehicles USA 2022
      • Top 20 China EV Manufacturers
      • EV Surges 2023 Q1
      • Fully Electric or Hybrid
      • Electric Trucks Are Here
      • Tesla Semi Compelling Economics
      • Electric Buses Save Money
      • Electric Motorcycles Coming
      • EV Scooters Rapid Increase
      • Electric Tractor Models
      • Electric Boats
      • Electric Ships
      • Cruise Ships are bad polluters
      • Electric Bus Rapid Growth
      • Smartphone Maker Making Cars
      • EV Mining Equipment
      • Fuel and Labour Truck Costs in Australia
      • EV Truck Uptake is Surging
  • Robotaxi

    • AV & Robotaxis

      • AVs by 2023
      • AVs saves lives
      • AV Manufacturers 2022
      • Tesla makes AVs Economic
      • Robotaxis not Rail for Sunshine Coast
      • Tesla Robotaxi Finance Model
      • Tesla FSD Improvement 2024
      • AI Accelerates Autonomous Driving
      • BYD Autonomous Vehicles
  • Climate Change

    • Climate Change

      • 100% Renewable Energy in 6 years
      • FF Subsidies $11m per min
      • Green Energy saves $5400
      • Cut 2 percent GDP Fossil Fuel Subsidies
      • 2 Percent GDP for Net Zero
      • 15 GreenWashing Claims
      • 5 Signs of Climate Deniers
      • 10 CC Denier Arguments
      • Fossil Fuel Company Lies
      • Fossil Fuel Subsidies Killing Our Earth
      • GeoEngineering Climate
      • Coal Mine Replacement
      • Recycling is Poor
      • Sea Level Rises Inevitable
      • Mines Reduce by 80%
      • Synthetic Biofuels Using Bacteria
      • Sustainable Aviation Fuels Unrealistic
      • Ethanol Worse than Gasoline
      • Direct Air Capture Unproven
      • Carbon Capture and Storage Fail
      • Low Investment in RE by Big Oil
      • Arctic Ice Cover Gone in 20 Years
      • Heat Pumps For Energy Savings
      • USA Inflation Reduction Act
      • Uninsurable Due To Climate Change
      • Zero Emission Shipping by 2050
      • Electrifying Shipping Ports
      • Cruise Ships – bad polluters
      • Ship Emissions Halve
      • OPEC Countries Anti-Climate Change Actions
      • Carbon Capture for Ethanol
      • High-Intensity Rain Storms
      • Non-CO2 Emissions Easier To Abate Than CO2
      • Green Steel Easy to Abate?
      • AMOC Tipping Point
      • New Vehicle Efficiency Standard Oz
      • 100 Companies Responsible for 71% of Emissions
      • 100 Companies Reducing 71% of Emissions
      • Scary Climate Change
      • Earth Energy Imbalance Visualization
      • Climate Refugees Increasing 41%
      • 3°C Climate Change Costs 36% of GDP
      • 2024 State of the Climate
      • Lignin Replacing Plastic
      • EVs Save Emissions Using Gas
      • Why USA Leaving Climate Talks is Good
      • 20 companies create 40 percent of emissions
      • Lethal Humidity
      • Queensland Gas Companies Pay Zero Tax
  • Minerals

    • Minerals for New Energy

      • Graphite for Batteries
      • Cobalt in Batteries
      • Nickel in Batteries
      • Rare Earth Elements
      • Platinum Group Metals (PGM)
      • Copper Demand
      • Green Steel Technology
      • Green Steel with Carbon Capture
      • Green Steel From Fortescue
      • Green Aluminium is Easy
      • Agromining Minerals
      • Steel from Aluminium Waste
      • Molten Oxide Electrolysis
  • Lithium

    • Lithium

      • Lithium amount in EV battery
      • Enough Lithium Supply?
      • Direct Lithium Extraction
      • Lithium Shortfall for GigaFactories
      • Top 8 Lithium Miners by 2024
      • Lithium from Chile
      • Lithium From Seawater Demonstrated
      • Top 20 LiOn Battery Manufacturers
  • Nuclear

    • Nuclear Power

      • Nuclear Power Not An Option
      • 15 Myths of Nuclear Power
      • RE cheaper than Nuclear
      • Nuclear SMR Reactors
      • Small Power – Not Nuclear
      • France Nuclear misinformation
      • Nuclear Waste Problem
      • Huge Nuclear Subsidies
      • LCA Carbon Footprint Nuclear
      • Uranium Mining
      • Nuclear Waste Overstated
      • Nuclear Proponents Lack Economics
      • Nuclear Renaissance v4.0
      • Fusion or Fiction
      • UK Nuclear vs Wind Electricity Cost
      • France Solar Carparks vs Nuclear
      • UAE Nuclear – not Poster example
      • Advances in Thorium Nuclear Reactors
      • Nuclear is Not Safe
      • Ontario Nuclear: Debunking Costly Myths
      • Low Dose Radiation From Nuclear Accidents
      • Tarong Nuclear and Accident Impacts
  • Batteries

    • Batteries

      • Community Battery Storage
      • European Battery Gigafactories
      • USA Battery Gigafactories
      • China Battery Gigafactories
      • Battery Gigafactories
      • Lithium Battery Improvements
      • Pumped Hydro as a Battery
      • Batteries 300TWh
      • Top 2 EV Batteries Globally
      • Lithium amount in EV battery
      • CO2 Battery Technology
      • Tesla Grid & Home Batteries
      • Combo Battery 1200km
      • Tesa Grid-Scale Batteries
      • Batteries win Transport
      • Flow Batteries – Vn, Fe Zn HBr
      • Sodium-Iron Battery for EVs
      • Nano Silicon Anode for Batteries
      • Gravity Batteries With Heavy Blocks
      • Compressed Air Battery Technology
      • Queensland Pumped Hydro Proposals
      • Liquid Metals Battery
      • Iron Air Batteries
      • Graphene Aluminium-Ion Batteries
      • New Chemistry Battery Comparison
      • Nickel Hydrogen Battery
      • 15 Minute Charging Batteries
      • Elements in Batteries
      • Toyota’s Failure With Solid State Batteries
      • Ten Solid State Battery Announcements
      • Batteries Mounted on Power Poles
      • 1000-Mile Battery Innovations
      • Batteries Last 40 Years
      • 25 Factors in Battery Systems
      • Batteries End Fossil Fuel Era
      • Group14 Silicon Anodes
      • Building a Battery Future
  • Technology

    • Technology and Innovation

      • 5G Explained
      • Mobile Phones Are Global
      • 8 Steps for Websites Prep
      • VC Funding for Innovation or Angel or 3’Fs
      • Goal Setting Questions
      • Goal Setting
      • Business Consulting
      • Customer Acquisition / Life Time Value
      • Improve Productivity
      • Genealogy Software
  • Hydrogen

    • Green Hydrogen

      • H2 Myths and Opportunities
      • Ten Reasons H2 Cars are Dead
      • New H2 Technologies
      • Green H2 Opportunities
      • H2 Storage & Transport Problems
      • Hydrogen Battery Storage
      • Hydrogen Cult Madness
      • Hydrogen Motorcycle Engines
      • H2 Not for Home Heating
      • Hydrogen Bus Trials
      • H2 Trains Uneconomic
      • Is $7B For Hydrogen Sheer Folly?
      • Cheaper Hydrogen Electrolyzers
      • Hydrogen Buses Fail Economics
      • Hydrogen Thoughts Distilled – Paul Martin
      • Unrealistic 2030 Hydrogen Goals
      • Australia’s Hydrogen Superpower Vision
      • Nitrogen Fertilizer H2 Replaced by AI and Bacteria
      • Stellantis Flawed Hydrogen Strategy
      • Hydrogen Dead End in China
      • Geologic or Gold Hydrogen
      • Hydrogen is a Greenhouse Gas
      • Green Hydrogen Progress from Fortescue
  • AI & Robots

    • Ai & Robotics

      • AI Economic Improvement In Knowledge Workers
      • Will Robots take our Jobs?
      • Disruption with ChatGPT
      • Bard AI Model from Google
      • Robotic Surgery Revolution
      • Value of Humanoid Robots
      • Robots for Airplanes
      • Tesla Optimus Robot is Closer to Reality
      • Humanoid Robots To Watch in 2024
      • Impact of AI on Job Creation and Disruption
      • Custom Design AI Compute Chips
      • Breakthrough AI Geometry
      • Tesla Optimus Robot Worth $10t by 2030
      • Fitness Wearables For Disease Prevention
      • Electricity for AI Exceeds Transportation
      • Nvidia AI Announcements at CES 2025
  • Disruption

    • Disruption

      • 3 Disruptions 8 Technologies by Tony Seba
      • 5 Disruptions by Cathie Wood
      • 5 Orders of Innovation
      • Faster Horse Fallacy – Experts Get it Wrong
      • Butterfly Not a Caterpillar with Wings
      • Simple Power by Freeing Energy
      • Changes to Society from Disruptions
      • 100% Renewable Energy, 145 Countries, 6 Years
      • Recycling Effectiveness is Poor
      • Top 15 GreenWashing Claims
      • Fossil Fuel Excess Profits of $134b
      • Toyota No-EV Strategy Risks Japan’s Economy
      • Toroid Propeller Design
      • Chinese Cars are Coming to UK
      • IEA Forecasts Wrong by 7 Times
      • Active Transport Challenges
      • Prof Ray Wills Rapid EV Rise
      • Exponential Battery Growth is Underway
      • Paraplegics Walking Again
      • Bloomberg Vehicle Outlook: Out by 20 years
      • Nitrogen Fertilizer Replaced by AI and Bacteria
      • Energy Breakthroughs Drives Transportation
      • Mistrust in Science Increasing
  • Tesla News

    • Tesla News

      • Tesla Supercharger Billion Dollar Returns
      • Tesla Masterplan Three 2023
      • Is Tesla Market Cap Too High
      • Tesla Insurance Opportunity
      • Tesla makes Robotaxis Economic
      • Grid Batteries Rapid Increase
      • Tesla 4680 Battery Ramp
      • Ten Cybertruck Features
      • Tesla 4680 Battery Details
      • Tesla 2024 Predictions by Analysts
      • Can Legacy Automakers Ever Catch Tesla?
      • Tesla Achievements 2018 to 2024
      • Announcements From Tesla Q3 2024
      • Tesla Earnings Call Q4-2024 Summary
  • Electric Planes

    • Electric Planes

      • Electric Airplanes Flying Soon
      • Electric Planes from Wright Progressing
      • Robots for Airplanes With ChatGPT
      • Pipistrel Electric Plane
      • eVTol the End of Helicopters
  • Food Disruption

    • Food Disruption

      • Sweeteners from Precision Fermentation
      • Moos Law for Food Disruption
      • Food Disruption Impacts
      • Food and Agriculture Disruption by Fermentation
      • Food Disruption is Happening
      • Food from Coal
      • Precision Fermentation Food Cost-Competitive
      • Precision Fermentation Q&A
      • George Monbiot Precision Fermentation
  • Health

    • Health

      • Earth’s Population is Too High
      • Zero Population Growth & Carrying Capacity
      • Dementia Diagnosis and Treatment Advances
      • Fitness Wearables For Disease Prevention
      • Vaccines Saved 154 million Lives
      • Obesity GLP-1 Drug Use
      • Ozempic and GLP-1 Drugs
      • Human Cell Atlas
      • Long Covid Impacts
      • Statin Effectiveness in Older People 
      • Covid Reduces IQ
      • AI Accelerates Drug Discovery
      • Human 3D Organoids
      • AI Helps Us Live Longer
  • Waste
  • All Blogs

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By Hugh Butler / February 17, 2013

Disruption

  • 3 Disruptions 8 Technologies by Tony Seba
  • 5 Disruptions by Cathie Wood
  • 5 Orders of Innovation
  • Faster Horse Fallacy – Experts Get it Wrong
  • Butterfly Not a Caterpillar with Wings
  • Simple Power by Freeing Energy
  • Changes to Society from Disruptions
  • 100% Renewable Energy, 145 Countries, 6 Years
  • Recycling Effectiveness is Poor
  • Top 15 GreenWashing Claims
  • Fossil Fuel Excess Profits of $134b
  • Toyota No-EV Strategy Risks Japan’s Economy
  • Toroid Propeller Design
  • Chinese Cars are Coming to UK
  • IEA Forecasts Wrong by 7 Times
  • Active Transport Challenges
  • Prof Ray Wills Rapid EV Rise
  • Exponential Battery Growth is Underway
  • Paraplegics Walking Again
  • Bloomberg Vehicle Outlook: Out by 20 years
  • Nitrogen Fertilizer Replaced by AI and Bacteria
  • Energy Breakthroughs Drives Transportation
  • Mistrust in Science Increasing

Current Generation in Australia

Renewable Energy

  • Renewable Energy by 2025
  • V2G Disrupts Electricity
  • Increasing Renewable Energy
  • Stop Burning Rocks for Energy
  • Recycling Solar & Turbines
  • LCA Carbon Footprint of Wind
  • LCA Carbon Footprint for Solar Panels
  • Underwater Power Cables
  • Offshore Wind Technology
  • OffGrid Electricity
  • Geothermal Energy
  • Project Innerspace Geothermal
  • Coal Mine Replacement
  • Ownership Australias Grid
  • China Renewable Energy Plan
  • Wind Turbines & Bird Kill
  • Thin Film Low Cost Solar
  • Electrical Management Systems
  • Coal Going Going Gone
  • Estimates of RE Overstated
  • Synthetic Biofuels Using Bacteria
  • Terraform’s Innovative Methane E-fuel
  • Hydropower Reductions
  • India PV Manufacturing Targets
  • PV Panels Supply Booming
  • Concentrated Solar CSP
  • France Solar Carparks vs Nuclear
  • Baseload to Dispatchable – Transforming Electricity
  • Increased Solar Efficiency with Perovskite
  • Green Methanol: A Potential Clean Fuel Solution
  • Comparison of Synthetic Ethanol and Methanol
  • USA Electricity Is Going Renewable
  • Tidal & Wave Power
  • China’s Energy Megabase Plan 
  • Chinese Coal Drops 70% -45% by 2030
  • 153 Countries 100% Renewable Energy
  • Enough Solar Panels for 100% Electricity in 4 Years
  • Coal to Build Wind Turbines
  • Wind Prices Falling
  • Q&A Renewable Energy
  • Renters Balcony Solar Battery
  • Reclaiming Sovereignty When Fossil Fuel is Gone
  • Inertia In Electricity Grids
  • 97% or 100% for Net Zero

Hydrogen

  • H2 Myths and Opportunities
  • Ten Reasons H2 Cars are Dead
  • New H2 Technologies
  • Green H2 Opportunities
  • H2 Storage & Transport Problems
  • Hydrogen Battery Storage
  • Hydrogen Cult Madness
  • Hydrogen Motorcycle Engines
  • H2 Not for Home Heating
  • Hydrogen Bus Trials
  • H2 Trains Uneconomic
  • Is $7B For Hydrogen Sheer Folly?
  • Cheaper Hydrogen Electrolyzers
  • Hydrogen Buses Fail Economics
  • Hydrogen Thoughts Distilled – Paul Martin
  • Unrealistic 2030 Hydrogen Goals
  • Australia’s Hydrogen Superpower Vision
  • Nitrogen Fertilizer H2 Replaced by AI and Bacteria
  • Stellantis Flawed Hydrogen Strategy
  • Hydrogen Dead End in China
  • Geologic or Gold Hydrogen
  • Hydrogen is a Greenhouse Gas
  • Green Hydrogen Progress from Fortescue

Gas

  • Stranded Gas Assets in Australia
  • Japan Has a Gas Problem
  • Great Gas Giveaway
  • Australian Gas Exports Will Crash
  • Gas Transition to Electric In Australia
  • Germany’s Russian Gas Disaster

Electric Vehicles

  • Global Car Sales
  • 10 Electric Vehicle Myths
  • EV Pickups are Coming
  • EVs Increasing
  • EV Replaces Petrol Imports
  • EU Bans ICE Vehicles by 2035
  • EV Charging Stations
  • End of ICE Cars in California
  • EV Adoption Increased in 2022
  • EV Startups going Broke
  • Best-Selling Vehicles USA 2022
  • Top 20 China EV Manufacturers
  • EV Surges 2023 Q1
  • Fully Electric or Hybrid
  • Electric Trucks Are Here
  • Tesla Semi Compelling Economics
  • Electric Buses Save Money
  • Electric Motorcycles Coming
  • EV Scooters Rapid Increase
  • Electric Tractor Models
  • Electric Boats
  • Electric Ships
  • Cruise Ships are bad polluters
  • Electric Bus Rapid Growth
  • Smartphone Maker Making Cars
  • EV Mining Equipment
  • Fuel and Labour Truck Costs in Australia
  • EV Truck Uptake is Surging

Electric Planes

  • Electric Airplanes Flying Soon
  • Electric Planes from Wright Progressing
  • Robots for Airplanes With ChatGPT
  • Pipistrel Electric Plane
  • eVTol the End of Helicopters

Lithium

  • Lithium amount in EV battery
  • Enough Lithium Supply?
  • Direct Lithium Extraction
  • Lithium Shortfall for GigaFactories
  • Top 8 Lithium Miners by 2024
  • Lithium from Chile
  • Lithium From Seawater Demonstrated
  • Top 20 LiOn Battery Manufacturers

Tesla News

  • Tesla Supercharger Billion Dollar Returns
  • Tesla Masterplan Three 2023
  • Is Tesla Market Cap Too High
  • Tesla Insurance Opportunity
  • Tesla makes Robotaxis Economic
  • Grid Batteries Rapid Increase
  • Tesla 4680 Battery Ramp
  • Ten Cybertruck Features
  • Tesla 4680 Battery Details
  • Tesla 2024 Predictions by Analysts
  • Can Legacy Automakers Ever Catch Tesla?
  • Tesla Achievements 2018 to 2024
  • Announcements From Tesla Q3 2024
  • Tesla Earnings Call Q4-2024 Summary

Disruption

  • 3 Disruptions 8 Technologies by Tony Seba
  • 5 Disruptions by Cathie Wood
  • 5 Orders of Innovation
  • Faster Horse Fallacy – Experts Get it Wrong
  • Butterfly Not a Caterpillar with Wings
  • Simple Power by Freeing Energy
  • Changes to Society from Disruptions
  • 100% Renewable Energy, 145 Countries, 6 Years
  • Recycling Effectiveness is Poor
  • Top 15 GreenWashing Claims
  • Fossil Fuel Excess Profits of $134b
  • Toyota No-EV Strategy Risks Japan’s Economy
  • Toroid Propeller Design
  • Chinese Cars are Coming to UK
  • IEA Forecasts Wrong by 7 Times
  • Active Transport Challenges
  • Prof Ray Wills Rapid EV Rise
  • Exponential Battery Growth is Underway
  • Paraplegics Walking Again
  • Bloomberg Vehicle Outlook: Out by 20 years
  • Nitrogen Fertilizer Replaced by AI and Bacteria
  • Energy Breakthroughs Drives Transportation
  • Mistrust in Science Increasing

Food Disruption

  • Sweeteners from Precision Fermentation
  • Moos Law for Food Disruption
  • Food Disruption Impacts
  • Food and Agriculture Disruption by Fermentation
  • Food Disruption is Happening
  • Food from Coal
  • Precision Fermentation Food Cost-Competitive
  • Precision Fermentation Q&A
  • George Monbiot Precision Fermentation

Nuclear

  • Nuclear Power Not An Option
  • 15 Myths of Nuclear Power
  • RE cheaper than Nuclear
  • Nuclear SMR Reactors
  • Small Power – Not Nuclear
  • France Nuclear misinformation
  • Nuclear Waste Problem
  • Huge Nuclear Subsidies
  • LCA Carbon Footprint Nuclear
  • Uranium Mining
  • Nuclear Waste Overstated
  • Nuclear Proponents Lack Economics
  • Nuclear Renaissance v4.0
  • Fusion or Fiction
  • UK Nuclear vs Wind Electricity Cost
  • France Solar Carparks vs Nuclear
  • UAE Nuclear – not Poster example
  • Advances in Thorium Nuclear Reactors
  • Nuclear is Not Safe
  • Ontario Nuclear: Debunking Costly Myths
  • Low Dose Radiation From Nuclear Accidents
  • Tarong Nuclear and Accident Impacts

Health

  • Earth’s Population is Too High
  • Zero Population Growth & Carrying Capacity
  • Dementia Diagnosis and Treatment Advances
  • Fitness Wearables For Disease Prevention
  • Vaccines Saved 154 million Lives
  • Obesity GLP-1 Drug Use
  • Ozempic and GLP-1 Drugs
  • Human Cell Atlas
  • Long Covid Impacts
  • Statin Effectiveness in Older People 
  • Covid Reduces IQ
  • AI Accelerates Drug Discovery
  • Human 3D Organoids
  • AI Helps Us Live Longer

Climate Change

  • 100% Renewable Energy in 6 years
  • FF Subsidies $11m per min
  • Green Energy saves $5400
  • Cut 2 percent GDP Fossil Fuel Subsidies
  • 2 Percent GDP for Net Zero
  • 15 GreenWashing Claims
  • 5 Signs of Climate Deniers
  • 10 CC Denier Arguments
  • Fossil Fuel Company Lies
  • Fossil Fuel Subsidies Killing Our Earth
  • GeoEngineering Climate
  • Coal Mine Replacement
  • Recycling is Poor
  • Sea Level Rises Inevitable
  • Mines Reduce by 80%
  • Synthetic Biofuels Using Bacteria
  • Sustainable Aviation Fuels Unrealistic
  • Ethanol Worse than Gasoline
  • Direct Air Capture Unproven
  • Carbon Capture and Storage Fail
  • Low Investment in RE by Big Oil
  • Arctic Ice Cover Gone in 20 Years
  • Heat Pumps For Energy Savings
  • USA Inflation Reduction Act
  • Uninsurable Due To Climate Change
  • Zero Emission Shipping by 2050
  • Electrifying Shipping Ports
  • Cruise Ships – bad polluters
  • Ship Emissions Halve
  • OPEC Countries Anti-Climate Change Actions
  • Carbon Capture for Ethanol
  • High-Intensity Rain Storms
  • Non-CO2 Emissions Easier To Abate Than CO2
  • Green Steel Easy to Abate?
  • AMOC Tipping Point
  • New Vehicle Efficiency Standard Oz
  • 100 Companies Responsible for 71% of Emissions
  • 100 Companies Reducing 71% of Emissions
  • Scary Climate Change
  • Earth Energy Imbalance Visualization
  • Climate Refugees Increasing 41%
  • 3°C Climate Change Costs 36% of GDP
  • 2024 State of the Climate
  • Lignin Replacing Plastic
  • EVs Save Emissions Using Gas
  • Why USA Leaving Climate Talks is Good
  • 20 companies create 40 percent of emissions
  • Lethal Humidity
  • Queensland Gas Companies Pay Zero Tax

Minerals

  • Graphite for Batteries
  • Cobalt in Batteries
  • Nickel in Batteries
  • Rare Earth Elements
  • Platinum Group Metals (PGM)
  • Copper Demand
  • Green Steel Technology
  • Green Steel with Carbon Capture
  • Green Steel From Fortescue
  • Green Aluminium is Easy
  • Agromining Minerals
  • Steel from Aluminium Waste
  • Molten Oxide Electrolysis

Autonomous Vehicles

  • AVs by 2023
  • AVs saves lives
  • AV Manufacturers 2022
  • Tesla makes AVs Economic
  • Robotaxis not Rail for Sunshine Coast
  • Tesla Robotaxi Finance Model
  • Tesla FSD Improvement 2024
  • AI Accelerates Autonomous Driving
  • BYD Autonomous Vehicles

AI & Robotics

  • AI Economic Improvement In Knowledge Workers
  • Will Robots take our Jobs?
  • Disruption with ChatGPT
  • Bard AI Model from Google
  • Robotic Surgery Revolution
  • Value of Humanoid Robots
  • Robots for Airplanes
  • Tesla Optimus Robot is Closer to Reality
  • Humanoid Robots To Watch in 2024
  • Impact of AI on Job Creation and Disruption
  • Custom Design AI Compute Chips
  • Breakthrough AI Geometry
  • Tesla Optimus Robot Worth $10t by 2030
  • Fitness Wearables For Disease Prevention
  • Electricity for AI Exceeds Transportation
  • Nvidia AI Announcements at CES 2025

Batteries

  • Community Battery Storage
  • European Battery Gigafactories
  • USA Battery Gigafactories
  • China Battery Gigafactories
  • Battery Gigafactories
  • Lithium Battery Improvements
  • Pumped Hydro as a Battery
  • Batteries 300TWh
  • Top 2 EV Batteries Globally
  • Lithium amount in EV battery
  • CO2 Battery Technology
  • Tesla Grid & Home Batteries
  • Combo Battery 1200km
  • Tesa Grid-Scale Batteries
  • Batteries win Transport
  • Flow Batteries – Vn, Fe Zn HBr
  • Sodium-Iron Battery for EVs
  • Nano Silicon Anode for Batteries
  • Gravity Batteries With Heavy Blocks
  • Compressed Air Battery Technology
  • Queensland Pumped Hydro Proposals
  • Liquid Metals Battery
  • Iron Air Batteries
  • Graphene Aluminium-Ion Batteries
  • New Chemistry Battery Comparison
  • Nickel Hydrogen Battery
  • 15 Minute Charging Batteries
  • Elements in Batteries
  • Toyota’s Failure With Solid State Batteries
  • Ten Solid State Battery Announcements
  • Batteries Mounted on Power Poles
  • 1000-Mile Battery Innovations
  • Batteries Last 40 Years
  • 25 Factors in Battery Systems
  • Batteries End Fossil Fuel Era
  • Group14 Silicon Anodes
  • Building a Battery Future

Misc Tech

  • 5G Explained
  • Mobile Phones Are Global
  • 8 Steps for Websites Prep
  • VC Funding for Innovation or Angel or 3’Fs
  • Goal Setting Questions
  • Goal Setting
  • Business Consulting
  • Customer Acquisition / Life Time Value
  • Improve Productivity
  • Genealogy Software

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