The Disruption Decade: 2025–2035 and the New World Order
The Setup: 2020–2024 The first half of the 2020s was the runway for disruption. Technologies and policies that had been building for decades finally started to align, setting the stage for the decade ahead. These years were defined not by … Continued
The Truth About Solar and Land: A Rounding Error
One of the loudest arguments thrown against solar power is that it “uses too much land.” This claim often surfaces in debates fueled by fossil fuel lobby talking points or people unfamiliar with how land is actually used. Critics paint … Continued
From Slumber to Squeeze: Lithium’s Exponential New Era
The Gravity of Cost Curves What we’re witnessing with batteries is classic disruption economics. Costs fall as production scales, and that falling cost triggers more adoption, which then drives costs even lower. It’s a self-reinforcing cycle that turns slow change … Continued
Hybrids on Borrowed Time: China’s Battery Leap Sparks a New Era
The story of China’s EV market in 2025 isn’t just about record sales. It’s about the rapid divergence between BEVs and PHEVs—and how the rise of bigger batteries is erasing the last advantages hybrids once held. The Battery Size Boom … Continued
The Great Shift: Renewables Take 95% of New U.S. Capacity
Most people still think of solar and wind as “emerging technologies”—experiments, dependent on government handouts, a nice-to-have for the future. But that story is out of sync with reality. The U.S. grid is already being rebuilt—almost entirely—with renewables. And on … Continued
The Great Disruption: Fear, Hope, and Renewal
Introduction: At Humanity’s Existential Crossroads We stand at the gates of humanity’s existential crossroads. This moment is marked by profound disruption — not just technological shifts but deep societal impacts. Many feel fear without hope, seeing the tidal wave of … Continued
Linear Minds in an Exponential World
By Chris Meder — EV Curve Futurist Linear minds in an exponential world — how our own psychology blinds us to disruption, and why battery storage is now rewriting the rules of energy. The Psychology of Disruption When it comes … Continued
The Last Gasp: Why the Energy Transition Won’t Wait (and why the FUD is so loud)
By Chris Meder — EV Curve Futurist Disruption math, market fundamentals, and real‑world deployments say the energy transition is accelerating. The “it won’t happen that fast” chorus is political cover for a last‑gasp profit play by fossil incumbents and petrostates. … Continued
Energy System Rewired: The Unstoppable Rise of BESS
Twelve months ago, suggesting 3 terawatt-hours (TWh) of grid-scale battery storage by 2030 would’ve drawn smirks. Analysts dismissed it as techno-optimist fantasy. Fast forward to today: that “fantasy” is creeping into mainstream forecasts from BloombergNEF, Fastmarkets, and others. But here’s … Continued
Ashes to Abundance: The Great Coal Collapse
This piece is a direct follow-up to my recent July post, Why China Will Abandon Coal Sooner Than You Think, and builds on it from a global perspective. Where that post zoomed in on China, this one zooms out—tracking the … Continued