The industrial age of energy and transportation will be over by 2030. Maybe before. Exponentially improving technologies such as solar, electric vehicles, and autonomous (self-driving) cars will disrupt and sweep away the energy and transportation industries as we know it. The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of rocks. It ended because a disruptive technology ushered in the Bronze Age. The era of centralized, command-and-control, extraction-resource-based energy sources (oil, gas, coal and nuclear) will not end because we run out of petroleum, natural gas, coal, or uranium. It will end because these energy sources, the business models they employ, and the products that sustain them will be disrupted by superior technologies, product architectures, and business models. The same Silicon Valley ecosystem that created bit-based technologies that have disrupted atom-based industries is now creating bit- and electron-based technologies that will disrupt atom-based energy industries. This is a technology-based disruption reminiscent of how the cell phone, Internet, and personal computer swept away industries such as landline telephony, publishing, and mainframe computers. Just like those technology disruptions flipped the architecture of information and brought abundant, cheap and participatory information, the clean disruption will flip the architecture of energy and bring abundant, cheap and participatory energy. Just like those previous technology disruptions, the clean disruption is inevitable and will be swift. The industrial age of energy and transportation is already giving way to an information technology and knowledge-based energy and transportation era.

Acknowledgments Introduction: Energy and the Stone Age Chapter 1: The Solar Disrution Chapter 2: Finance and the Disruption of Energy Chapter 3: Electricity 2.0 - Distributed, Particiratory Energy and the Disruption of Power Utilities Chapter 4: The Electric Vehicle Disruption Chapter 5: The Autonomous(Self-Driving) Car Disrution Chapter 6: The End of Nuclear Chapter 7: The End of Oil Chapter 8: Natural Gas - A Bridge to Nowhere Chapter 9: The End of Biofuels Chapter 10: The End of Coal About the Author Endnotes