Innovation is changing our world faster than imaginable with commercialising innovative technologies faster than most people realise. Disruption is the result of multiple new technologies and new business models. Check out articles on energy disruption, transportation and food and agriculture.

Tesla 4680 Battery Details Updated

Tesla 4680 Battery Details Updated

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Toyota’s Failure With Solid State Batteries: A Timeline from 2009 to 2023

Toyota’s Failure With Solid State Batteries: A Timeline from 2009 to 2023

Solid-state batteries are the next big thing in battery technology but unfortunately, Toyota’s failure with solid state batteries is clear…
Ten Cybertruck Features Disrupting the Vehicle Market

Ten Cybertruck Features Disrupting the Vehicle Market

The official launch of the Cybertruck shows more than ten improvements that will flow into new and existing models of…
Solar Panels Waste Myth Dispelled

Solar Panels Waste Myth Dispelled

Solar panels waste myth is pushed by the fossil fuel lobby to delay the uptake of renewable energy. The rising…
Nuclear SMR Reactors

Nuclear SMR Reactors

Nuclear SMR Reactors are small and modular and it is proposed they overcome 2 of the conventional nuclear issues, cost…
Baseload to Dispatchable – Transforming Electricity

Baseload to Dispatchable – Transforming Electricity

Advent of big batteries changes electricity from synchronus (ie, generate and use) to asynchronous, i.e. store and use to match…
Elements in Batteries

Elements in Batteries

The quantity of elements in a battery is shown in Visual Capitalist images. The quantity of graphite is up to…
Smartphone Maker Making Cars

Smartphone Maker Making Cars

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15 Minute Charging Batteries from CATL

15 Minute Charging Batteries from CATL

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Zero Emission Shipping by 2050

Zero Emission Shipping by 2050

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Electrifying Shipping Ports
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Hydrogen Buses Fail Economics

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Becoming Uninsurable Due To Climate Change

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Cheaper Hydrogen Electrolyzers Needed

Cheaper Hydrogen Electrolyzers Needed

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France Solar Carparks vs Nuclear

France Solar Carparks vs Nuclear

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Is $7B For Hydrogen Sheer Folly?

Is $7B For Hydrogen Sheer Folly?

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Nickel Hydrogen Battery

Nickel Hydrogen Battery

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Tesla 4680 Battery Ramp

Tesla 4680 Battery Ramp

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Concentrated Solar CSP Improvements

Concentrated Solar CSP Improvements

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Rapid EV Increase Prediction by Prof Ray Wills

Rapid EV Increase Prediction by Prof Ray Wills

Disruption to the car market is now inevitable with the rise of electric vehicles globally. An exponential increase in EV…

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Why change discussion? Because change management relies on four core principles and these are :

  • Understand Change.
  • Plan Change.
  • Implement Change.
  • Communicate Change.

Change is happening rapidly. Climate change. Renewable energy. Transportation. This period of human existence is one of the great revolutions of the last 20,000 years, and the changes will be as or more profound as previous revolutions:

  • First Industrial Revolution 1765
  • Second Industrial Revolution 1870.
  • Third Industrial Revolution 1969.
  • Industry 4.0

This industrial revolution 4 will be as profound as previous ones. Over the 250 years of the first revolution, and 135 years of electricity, the advent of free energy will liberate the 30% of the global people who have energy poverty.

Commercialising Innovative Technologies

About 20 years ago, an astute Canadian told me there are 3 reasons people change.

  • They make money
  • They lose money
  • It is the law

The strongest change is when there are 2 factors in play. So change can be sudden. Whenever something is 1/10th of the cost, change will happen. Adoption is often 10 years to get to 1% of the market. Then within a decade, it can hold 80% of the market. Often it is not a 1 to 1 substitution.

Article Perspectives

Check out the various recent blogs. I try to view these subjects from 3 perspectives.

  • Technology. Does it work? We know that R&D and scaling of solution will drive up the tech, and decrease costs
  • Economics. Are the compelling financial or economic drivers for change? Will these change with R&D or scaling?
  • Politics. What are the institutional barriers or the individuals belief systems?

Innovation is never a straight line.

Commercialing innovative technologies
Innovation over the past 100 years has been an “S” Curve (from Tony Seba, www.RethinkX.com)

Challenges to Transition

The International Energy Agency says the data shows a looming mismatch between the world’s strengthened climate ambitions and the availability of critical minerals that are essential to realising those ambitions. This in the energy market is also true to other aspects of change over the next 10 years.