Is Tony Seba’s Route To Super-Abundance Really Achievable? | The Fully Charged Podcast

Can't get enough of Tony Seba!

We need more visionaries like Tony

Smart man. Loved his talk years ago. Things happen quickly once the ball starts rolling.

FINALLY somebody says it - the transition to renewables will unleash an “age of abundance”. I have been banging on about this for YEARS. This is the message we should be promoting, because it’s true! Not an age of less as the fossil fuel companies would have us believe.

The way Tony thinks is so refreshing and and every time I hear him talk it generates so much thought for me personally, Thanks for having him on your podcast.

Tony Seba's insights are always fascinating, and his record of predictions are just incredible. As a person who was born in 1960s GB it is incredible to look at what has changed in just 60 years. To be living through the transition to EVs, solar and other clean energy is fascinating. Great interview, again!

Thanks Robert. That was the podcast many of us wanted to hear. This should be required listening for our politicians . I made my MP aware of RethinkX a year ago . Hopefully market forces will succeed where protest hasn't so far.

Excellent podcast! Like Tony said in the end, please don’t let five years go by before he comes on the show again!

Recent weather events here in New Zealand have resulted in significant power grid failures some of which may take weeks to rectify. We are now hearing news reports promoting 'micro grids' being an opportunity to add resilience to local electricity supply. Micro grids are local communities of consumer generators linking together and using their combined small scale generation to allow them to supply their own energy for at least short periods. We have PV so are well aware of the strangle hold that our big power generation companies have on the adoption, growth and economic viability of distributed generation. When every news story about a power outage is accompanied by the usual chorus of EVs being to blame and that EVs will overwhelm the capacity of our national grid I find it curious that while NZ is incentivising EV purchases they are sitting on their hands when it comes to promotion or incentivisation of PV. It's almost as though they don't want to upset the big generators present monopoly! Perhaps the present domestic crisis will provide some extra stimulus for the government to help the public and our power distribution system to put together a more resilient and equitable distributed generation framework. Here's hoping.

Congratulations on 200 episodes! Keep up the good work 👍

Mind blown! Wow, the hope meter ticked up a notch. I could listen to his ideas all day, hope you have him on again soon.

Seba's visualization of the phases of disruption is very helpful to understanding how the entire process works. And Seba is correct about the accelerating pace of the disruptive convergence of technologies.

Best show ever, thanks Robert and Tony

Robert, it was three people/organisations that turned me from petrol to electricity over a decade ago. You (and fully charged), Tony Seba and VPRO from the Netherlands. The latter produced an amazing video that spanned solar, renewables, investment, vertically farming etc and I learned all I needed to know about how we have the opportunity to clean up our act and become sustainable. Geoff

I look forward to this podcast every week.

It’s well worth watching all RethinkX videos. Very eye opening.

In 1974 I worked for an aluminium company in Norway having worked for British Aluminium in Scotland. The cost of aluminium in Norway was a fraction of the cost to that in Scotland, but the cost of transport levelled the cost. Both countries used hydro power to generate the electricity to make the aluminium. Then came aluminium products from China ... game over.

Very interesting talk, followed Tony's ideas for a good number of years and a lot of what he has described has happened and is happening. Solar, Wind and Battery is a game changer and the disruption of ICE tech would be more profound if it were not for the oil and gas giants lobbying and influencing policies around the world. Thanks Rob, thanks Tony great podcast, hopefully you will both do a followup!

Tony has always been my inspiration that lead me to believe in what Elon is doing, but there is so much more. i need to open my mind.

Tony Seba opened up my mind to a whole lot of hope and showed me the way forward.