Understanding Stellar Energy: How SWB Superpower will create clean energy superabundance (Rethinking Energy 2020-2030)

We are in the midst of the fastest, deepest, most transformative disruption of the energy sector in over a century. Stellar Energy systems will operate like stars, gathering a critical mass of resources and then igniting to producing energy indefinitely without further inputs. This groundbreaking report from RethinkX explains how solar power, wind power, and battery capacity can deliver clean a superabundance of energy at near-zero marginal cost to create Stellar Energy systems that will fundamentally transform our world and help build a future where all people in all societies everywhere can flourish as never before.

Today's energy disruption is a race to the stars, and this essential report provides a roadmap for navigating the transformation, using analytical tools like the Clean Energy U-Curve, SWB Superpower Curve, and SWB Coverage Curve to provide decision-makers with concrete frameworks to understand and unlock the potential of Stellar Energy.

Adam Dorr is an environmental social scientist and technology theorist whose current research with RethinkX is focused on the disruption of the global energy sector by new energy generation and storage technologies, and its intersection with similar disruptions set to unfold across the economy. He completed his MS at the University of Michigan's School for the Environment and Sustainability and his PhD at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs, where he studied the environmental politics, policy, and planning around disruptive technologies. He has over a decade of teaching, lecturing, and presenting experience.

James Arbib is chairman of a UK-based family investment office with a diversified portfolio across all assets classes and a focus on the risksand opportunities of technology disruption. He is the founder of Tellus Mater, an independant philanthropic foundation dedicated to exploring theimpacts of technology and its potential for solving some of the world's most challenging problems. He is the co-founder of RethinkX and has given keynote speeches at dozens of events including BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, governments, and corporations. He isthe co-author of Rethinking Humanity: Five Foundational Sector Disruptions, the Lifecycle of Civilisations, and the Coming Age of Freedom (2020) and Rethinking Climate Change (2021). A Graduate in history from Trinity College, Cambridge, he has a Masters in sustainability Leadership, also from Cambridge. He is a qualified chartered accountant and worked as an investment analyst covering utilities.

Tony Seba is a world-renowned thought leader, author, speaker, educator, angel investor and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. He is the author of the#1 Amazon best-selling book "Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation", "Solar Trillions" and "Winners Take All", and co-author of "RethinkingTransportation 2020-2030", "Rethinking Food and Agriculture 2020-2030", and "Rethinking Humanity". He has been featured in several movies anddocumentaries including Bloomberg's Forward Thinking: A Sustainable World, 2040, and SunGanges. He is recipient of many awards including the Savvy Awards (2019), Solar Future Today's Visionary Influencer Award (2018), and Clean Energy Action's 2017 Sunshine Award. He is the creator of the Seba Technology Disruption FrameworkTM. His work focuses on technology disruption, the convergence of technologies, business model innovation, and product innovation that is leading to the disruption of the world's major industries. He has been a keynote speaker at hundreds of global events and organizations including Google, the European Commission, Davos, COP21, CLSA, J.P. Morgan, Nomura, National Governors Association, Conference on World Affairs, the Global Leaders Forum, Intersolar and China EV100. He has taught thousands of entrepreneurs andcorporate leaders at Stanford Continuing Studies. He has a Stanford MBA and an MIT degree in Computer Science and Engineering.