History has been written by whoever controls the dominant fuel of the era — until now, says renewables entrepreneur Matt Tilleard. He explains why, as the clean energy transition ramps up, we’re moving from a world where energy comes from burning fuels to one where it will come from using technology. Learn why this could change everything about global power dynamics — and why the future belongs not to those who control resources, but to those who build and share technology. (Recorded at TED Countdown Summit 2025 on June 16, 2025)
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@douglasengle2704
October 28, 2025 at 7:28 pm
Average atmospheric water vapor is 1% of the troposphere with CO2e of 18. CO2 400 ppm (0.04%) with CO2e of 1. 1.00%/0.04% = 25, water vapor is 25 times more present than CO2 X 18 CO2e = 450 CO2e water vapor to 1 CO2e CO2. All the other greenhouse gases total to about 1 CO2e. 1/452 share for CO2. Human caused CO2 is 40% or less than a 1/10% share! Simple and accurate to several decimal places. US electricity generation has greatly clean since the mid 1980s.
China is building hundreds of USC clean coal power stations to re-power its power grid. The only market reason for solar and wind generated electricity on the public power grid is to force large use of expensive natural gas to support its generating space in stead of generating electricity with economic coal. The power grids would never spend the huge costs to support solar and wind generated electricity with out politicians demanding they do
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October 28, 2025 at 7:28 pm
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@justinmas299
October 28, 2025 at 7:32 pm
the lack of central control is why solar is not dominant now
@edukid1984
October 28, 2025 at 8:08 pm
LOL this presentation is a joke at the heel of China absolutely dominating and holding virtual monopoly over solar, wind and rare earth refining. No cartel? No problem, we’ll let ONE country do it all and control it all (totally not China’s fault btw).
@TylerMerlin-c4r
October 28, 2025 at 8:37 pm
Spit it.
@nicholaschan7651
October 28, 2025 at 9:11 pm
Insightful vid and f*ck those bots in the comments
@beautifulgirl219
October 29, 2025 at 10:25 am
Matt Tilleard mentions Trump, Putin, and Xi at the beginning of his talk. Only Xi appears willing and able to understand and act upon the points Matt makes. It’s NOT China’s size that is allowing and causing it to replace the other superpower countries, it is its a ability, willingness, and practice of FACING REALITY and ACTING ON IT in the future of ENERGY. In the words of Copenhagen Atomics’ Thomas Jam Pedersen, “Energy Equals Prosperity”. The U.S. Oil & Gas industry is the MOST FINANCIALLY SUBSIDIZED INDUSTRY ON EARTH, and has been for over a CENTURY. Oil & Gas is subsidized through the tax system, and that DOESN’T COUNT THE SUBSIDIES OF being ALLOWED TO CONTINUALLY DESPOIL the ENTIRE PLANETARY ENVIRONMENT. Does the Nuclear industry get to do that? HECK NO! Donald Trump asked oil and gas executives to GIVE $1 BILLION for his presidential campaign during a meeting in April 2024 at his Mar-a-Lago resort. Witnesses confirmed Trump made a “transactional pitch,” telling the executives that their donation would be a “deal” due to the money they would save from the environmental policies he would reverse if elected. Oil and Gas is PRICE NON-COMPETITIVE!
@markthomasson5077
October 29, 2025 at 11:18 am
China moved to renewables more because they lack oil and coal.
@beautifulgirl219
October 29, 2025 at 2:38 pm
@markthomasson5077 China does lack oil and coal but China moved to renewables because renewables will be, and are now in terms of supplying NEW additional energy, BY FAR THE CHEAPEST, as well as the BIGGEST FUTURE MARKET, for energy, absent the world waking up to doing NUCLEAR without the HYPER-REGULATION that accounts for 70% of the cost, when NUCLEAR has BY FAR the SAFEST, CLEANEST record among energy sources. NUCLEAR provides reliable baseload TWO MILLION TIMES the energy density of fossil fuels, solar, wind, battery, geothermal, hydro, it is much more SCALABLE than renewables, NUCLEAR meets REAL energy needs for today and the future. China was killing MULTIPLE birds, not a single one. China is also building more NUCLEAR TODAY than the rest of the planet combined.
@rklauco
October 29, 2025 at 10:32 am
Everyone who had the blessing of owning a solar panel array knows exactly what Mr. Tilleard is talking about. Well done!
@hogey74
October 29, 2025 at 7:19 pm
Indeed. Pairing then with the emerging cheap EVs and selling power to the grid at peak times and prices is going to make folks like you into little power utilities. And start a stampede methinks:-)
@Hammeredprawn
October 29, 2025 at 10:53 am
The sun will control our energy because humans will wipe us out.
@vaidyasethuraman452
October 29, 2025 at 12:18 pm
The advent of Ai should give this new energy alternative. a big push- in terms of alternative materials and efficiency cy improvements. That is where AI will have. a great impact , the other being bio and medical sciences.
@stevey_z
October 29, 2025 at 12:52 pm
The best thing about renewables is after the transition is complete no one will control the anything.. everyone will have access to power
@fredhiser8075
October 29, 2025 at 1:21 pm
What are is the fuel gathering infrastructure going to be built from? There’s your bottleneck, your point of pressure and the place where the economic manipulation will occur. This will be where the cartel will place itself, whatever form that may take. How do we take this seriously? This person has nothing to lose if he’s wrong, but the people in emerging economies have everything to lose. Sorry, but the energy that has the biggest bang with the smallest amount of energy expenditure will win. That’s not the solar or wind energy as currently being developed or envisioned.
@stevenbarrett7648
October 29, 2025 at 2:33 pm
What do you feel is then ? its not going to be something non-renewable is it.
@fredhiser8075
October 29, 2025 at 2:52 pm
@stevenbarrett7648What do you define as renewable? The problem with this “renewable” energy as it is currently being developed is the equipment that does the harvesting. That’s the bottleneck. I’m not against a new technology, but what is currently available is more problematic than the problems it claims to solve. I still think it’s something that creates heat, but I could be wrong too about that. Also I would like someone to explain if these green energy folks are deep in their hearts for green energy, or against carbon based energy. We need to be honest about our motivations.
@ßadatgames
October 29, 2025 at 1:55 pm
I have a hard time taking anyone serious who is still using windmill energy. Look at how long they last and how many landfills they retire to. They are very inefficient and expensive to everyone and thing. Solar is mildly better.
@stevenbarrett7648
October 29, 2025 at 2:28 pm
We’ve had windmills since time began, your flour was milled in one back in the day, factories depended on water wheels to power their machinery, there’s nothing new under the sun, what would you rather have to dispose of, wind generator blades or nuclear reactor waste ?.
@shaykespeeer7040
October 29, 2025 at 2:07 pm
The ultimate goal should be energy independence for every citizen.
@karl6458
October 29, 2025 at 3:24 pm
so salesman came to sell
@giancarlopellizzari1751
October 29, 2025 at 3:34 pm
Great talking. Thanks
@FJS-RIP-2025
October 29, 2025 at 3:40 pm
na klar der nächste SEba jünger mit superpower.. LOL.. muss wer bezahlen schafft abhängigkeiten in die grüne Seidenstraße..
@matsamsung895
October 29, 2025 at 3:48 pm
How do I turn this knowledge into a good investment strategy? Asking for a friend of course
@davefroman4700
October 29, 2025 at 4:02 pm
Been screaming about this for a decade. But it is only a part of the equation. Technology convergences are responsible for the creation of every new social/economic system in history.
@rrdgz5355
October 29, 2025 at 4:04 pm
@7:38 this is a bit disingenuous.
On average you have a 500:1 ratio, where you need to move 500 kilos of dirt for every one kilo of lithium mined. Not to mention the amount of water that it needs to be refined, or the fact that what we’re mining today is the stuff that’s easily accessible.
Other rare earth minerals have even worst ratios.
To be clear, what I am saying is that the green energy is a step on the right direction, but it’s not green. It is greener, but not green.
Superman ain’t coming, but Homelander’s already here.
@tomconrad7091
October 29, 2025 at 4:35 pm
Absolutely Correct!!! We don’t need to subsidize coal, nuclear, oil, wind, solar and gas. We need to take care of the least of us and throw engineers to the wolves of the free market. Clean energy will win 🏆
@trainman9119
October 29, 2025 at 4:50 pm
Without oil, jets fall out of the sky, ships stay in port, and industrial agriculture stops.
@BrentonSmythesfieldsaye
October 29, 2025 at 8:36 pm
Stating the bleeding obvious of the current here and now and mischievously leaving it at that, only serves to highlight that, you have no interest in the topic of emissons reduction and hence don’t even know what is going on in those sectors and their future.
In a nutshell, you post brings nothing of value to the trable! Unlucky.
@timc6251
October 29, 2025 at 4:52 pm
Not sure what your point is? I tired to find one and couldn’t. Are you saying that it is not important who has rare earth metals, it’s important who innovates? But it’s China all around. China has them, China is number one on processing them, China is the greatest innovator and no one can beat it because it has scale and cheap labour. So what’s your point again?
@Goodkiwibloke
October 29, 2025 at 5:24 pm
There is currently a very effective cartel operating in the new energy field – rare earth mineral processing. China controls 80-90% of processing capacity, and is using the outturn of that process, the supply of rare earth minerals, to achieve its own strategic goals
It only takes one input on the critical path of production to limit output. And this is currently rare eaŕth minerals being limited by processing capacity location (and hence control). A warehouse can be full of fungible copper, aluminium, carbon, etc etc, but if supply of neodymium is constrained, the EV motor or wind turbine generator can not be made
The cartel is shifting from OPEC to CCP
The OPEC cartel started small, proved effective at increasing revenue for members, so others joined, ultimately forming OPEC+. The path is well mapped out for other “bottleneck” industries to follow
The success of this new rare earth processing cartel will be defined by the actions of new entrants into the rare earth processing business. If they want to maximise profit, a cartel is the perfect way to do it, so they may well join the CCP cartel
So it appears we are most likely swapping one cartel for another
@Patrick-jj5nh
October 29, 2025 at 5:50 pm
Another big evil cartel is the uranium and nuclear fission inudstry. They know ALL this, yet they persist in lying and bribing politicians selling their highly dangerous and toxic outdated technology.
@James_Howarth
October 29, 2025 at 6:24 pm
Anyone else think this dude looks like a Bond Villain, he’s got the perfect look 🙃
@hogey74
October 29, 2025 at 7:11 pm
If they can’t eat it or fornicate with it they will defecate on it. While listening to this bloke I found myself remembering that pithy and unkind description of a dog. And realising that it helped me to understand some of the human behaviour I’ve seen in recent decades.
@ramliothman1967
October 29, 2025 at 7:35 pm
Who controls the cartel?
@annakissed3226
October 29, 2025 at 8:15 pm
This is so annoying listing through the rare earths involved in Batteries.
Firstly because we could have solved the energy crisis by the 1970″s.
If Oak Ridge had been allowed to carry on its thorium research to deliver safe high temperature nuclear power not the insanity of building nuclear plants built for submarine to use at great pressure but instead to build them on land
Because they made lots of fissile Uranium and Plutonium the waste of which could go into fast breeder reactors to make even more plutonium for weapons.
We now have enough archinides to power high temperature molten salt based nuclear reactors for a thousand years.
Btw the team that designed the pressurised water reactor for submarines also designed the thorium reactors so they could safely be flown on planes. Those flying aircraft carriers in the Marvel Avengers movies were based on possible end points of the technology of thorium technology.
If we as a species had chosen differently Global Warming would not have got this bad so fast. We might have not had to worry about Global warming for maybe as much as 100 years albeit we might not have been able to save ourselves by then – from starvation!
Global warming has been happening for 10,000 years. It’s just in the 20th century it has got so much worse. Historians, like me, talk about the long 20th century. And the real damage to the environment started in the mid nineteenth century and still hasn”t finished
We have about 40 years left before global famine caused by big business as the global warming carries right on happening despite all of us all going over to electric vehicles and battery driven buildings.
Because the real driver of climate change is something we are choosing not to measure! To blind us to the truth because at the time the choice was made to ignore it we could do nothing about it
Atmospheric water!
So like the car driver who lost their car keys we focus not on where the light is, not where they had dropped the keys/mic/bomb
@Harry-y3d9t
October 29, 2025 at 8:17 pm
“Nobody can stop you from making solar panels”
…. who wants to tell him 😶
@joselopezalanis3568
October 29, 2025 at 8:22 pm
How many tons of rocks you have to extract to get a kilogram of end materials??
@peters7325
October 30, 2025 at 1:56 am
Solar and wind are a dead end road
@beatreuteler
October 30, 2025 at 7:52 am
It’s a pity you did not understand what was said.
@petersimms4982
October 30, 2025 at 3:20 am
The SUN 🌞 ☀️ 🌞 ☀️ 🌞 ☀️ is FREE FOR EVERYONE, use it , CHANGE THE WORLD, TAKE BACK THE POWER STOLEN BY THE ELITES 🤑🤑🤑
@markmulvaney8937
October 30, 2025 at 3:56 am
To all you climate change nutters. Why did bill gates just flip and say climate change was not as big a deal as he has previously stated.
@beatreuteler
October 30, 2025 at 8:05 am
Why don’t you ask him himself?
@Picci25021973
October 30, 2025 at 4:56 am
He simply explained why technological disruptions are unstoppable.
@hien323fable
October 30, 2025 at 5:13 am
What I got from this talk is that President Xi is 7 years younger than Trump and Putin is 6 years younger.
@urbanstrencan
October 30, 2025 at 6:05 am
Great talk, sustainable future won’t just change our lifes but our industry to 🤟🤟
@rationalmale9216
October 30, 2025 at 6:12 am
The death of Trump
@Darkmatter321
October 30, 2025 at 6:13 am
So basically this whole talk is about what China is achieving on a grand scale, without actually saying China. Typical!
@busybeeteach
October 30, 2025 at 7:16 am
But who gets rich?
@jaymzgaetz2006
October 30, 2025 at 7:32 am
We no longer need the grid. It’s only being used against us. We must destroy it.
@totalsoupsloud
October 30, 2025 at 7:35 am
best talk all year
@cad4246
October 30, 2025 at 7:43 am
Replacing heavy fuel oil generators is so much more valuable than adding solar and wind generation to grids in developed countries which are dominated by natural gas.
@justinbustin677
October 30, 2025 at 8:12 am
If green energy is cheaper. Wouldnt coal petroleum like that, means they can charge more and use less, while also having more reserves for the future.
@anticarrrot
October 30, 2025 at 9:06 am
Sodium batteries, made of cheap and common materials found everywhere, exist, and have been in the news for months.
“Boy parts of this video aged badly.”
@EugeneWangombe
October 30, 2025 at 9:07 am
Things I know but can’t prove: lithium based batteries are not the future people think it is. Something is coming.
@aleksandar7393
October 30, 2025 at 9:08 am
Well this could work wery well with following paper “Rapid Energy Transition by Paying Renewable Energy Up Front” posted at Zenodo ?
@SupriyaBhattacharjee-u6i
October 30, 2025 at 10:45 am
Absolutely
@rogersmith258
October 30, 2025 at 10:48 am
The future is multifaceted. With innovations in all aspects of green energy I fully expect all nations to use a mix of power options best suited to their own needs. Nuclear, solar, hydro, wind, geothermal, tidal, and the like all have a role to play in building a sustainable future for all mankind.
@davidholland3605
October 30, 2025 at 11:58 am
Brilliant presentation – well-said! 😊
@jeffdroz5294
October 30, 2025 at 12:55 pm
Energy independence is vital to national security. Burning fuels isn’t the way to get there.
@rich8304
October 30, 2025 at 1:12 pm
Propaganda comes in all forms, i live on a sailboat with solar to charge my batteries for cooking and lighting .
@rich8304
October 30, 2025 at 1:20 pm
Its not cheaper or cleaner untill its been paid off, As soon as someone takes the chance to build a solar/ wind city its just a waste of time and money, A solar panel ,wind generator, cooktop,battery and inverter kit to attach to a mud hut in Africa could work where the sun shines or wind blows every day. How come nobody has done that.
@acpatel9491
October 30, 2025 at 3:37 pm
Nice presentation…! Please keep up the good work. Thank you.
@jefferyholcombe5189
October 30, 2025 at 5:51 pm
I think they say the proof is in the pudding, otherwise proof I believe is what individuals are looking for in product’s & politician’s. Most of the time there is a promise of the world but can never be delivered under current situations. I hear a lot of it could lead to this and can lead to that when people don’t want the uncertainty of maybe’s and what if’s, they want fact, honesty, and integrity via the whole truth.
@geoffreywood3165
October 30, 2025 at 7:37 pm
No Aussie drinks Fosters, come up with a different acronym.