18 minutes summary of how and why the US will be able to end use of coal, natural gas and oil by using new disruptive technologies.

1. HOW TO RID THE USA OF
FOSSIL FUELS BY 2030
by ALEX LIGHTMAN
Chairman, Everblaze
Inspired by the publications of Tony Seba
and Mark Jacobson, both of Stanford University
HighPoint

2. IT’S TIME TO DECLARE
INDEPENDENCE FROM
FOSSIL FUELS

3. Why would we want to kick FF?
• We humans are 18% carbon. There are
over 10 million compounds of carbon,
many of them toxic. CO2 is a human
waste product. With 80% of US energy
produced via FF, we drown ourselves in
our own waste. We just can’t see it, smell
it, or taste it all.
• Air pollution kills 60,000 (18,000-109,000)
people per year in the U.S. prematurely.

4. HEALTH IMPACTS FROM
BURNING FOSSIL FUELS
• US Health Costs: $9,000/person/year. Greater than 57% of
the per capita income of Mexico.
• About 1/3 of US health care costs are from burning fossil
fuels ($886.5 billion).
• 30-40% of deaths world-wide are from pollution.
• A “safe” level of carbon dioxide is 350 parts per million.
• Now 400 PPM, not seen since the Pliocene over 3 million
years ago.
• If public FF companies burn what is on their balance sheets,
will hit over 600 ppm, temperatures up six degrees
centigrade.

5. CLIMATE IMPACTS FROM
BURNING FOSSIL FUELS
• Extreme weather:
– Super typhoon Haiyan: a tornado over your city lasting
4.5 hours.
– Over 10,000 people killed, over 600,000 homeless or
displaced.
• If trends continue, losses from weather damage will exceed
the entire world GDP in 2060.
• Rising sea levels will flood coastal cities, where 3/4ths of
humanity lives
– over 6 billion homeless people by 2025. There is no way to
afford rebuilding cities to house 6 billion people.

6. HIGH POINT, NC AFTER 500 PPM
CO2?

7. FOSSIL FUEL HARVEST AND CONSUMPTION IS
THE LEADING CAUSE OF WATER POLLUTION

9. WHY DESTROY OUR WATER?

11. THE OIL CURSE OF
ECONOMIC SUICIDE
• USA became #1 oil producing nation in the world
again…and first quarter GDP shrank 2.9%. The US is
still world’s no. 3 importer of FF, and the no. 2 importer of
oil, replaced by China.
• The Oil Curse: The nations with oil have greater
inequality, slower growth, more government
corruption,etc. than those that do not have oil. On
average, it takes $3.5 million in capital investment
to create an oil job.

12. 80% FF, 18% COAL, 29% GAS, 35% OIL

14. SOLAR INSTALLATIONS ARE
BOOMING!

15. SOLAR INNOVATIONS
Las Vegas City Hall

16. SOLAR INNOVATIONS
Everblaze Solar Trees

18. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
SOLAR ENDS FOSSIL
FUEL
• 2014 Solar = 1% of electricity.
Solar grew 41% last year. 36% = doubling 2 years.
• 2016 2%
• 2018 4%
• 2020 8%
• 2022 16%
• 2024 32% BOOM! Solar ENDS use of coal
• 2026 64% BOOM! Solar ENDS use of natural gas
• 2028 128%
• 2030 256% BOOM! solar + electric cars + self-driving
cars ENDS use of oil

19. CLEAN AMMONIA IS THE
INTERNAL COMBUSTION SOLUTION
Clean Renewable Energy will power everything that
plugs into the wall and is equipped with a battery.
Internal Combustion Engines will burn Clean Ammonia
with a minor alteration to the fuel tank.
-Ammonia burns with ZERO CARBON emissions
-New CLEAN PRODUCTION with sun, air, and water
limit environmental impact
-GUARANTEED stable costs
-Clean efficient fuel for the FOSSIL FREE FUEL

20. Ammonia Applications
NH3=Air+Water+Electricity
Ammonia
(NH3)
Current Needs:
Control NOx Emissions
(SCR system - Urea)
Fertilizer
Future Needs:
Ammonia Powered
Vehicles
No Fossil Fuels
Cost=~10x less than Haber-
Bosch
Food and
Biofuels
Transportation
Energy
CARBON
EMISSION
•Generators
•Transportation
•HVAC
•Industrial refrigeration
•Irrigation systems
Reduction of off-grid energy
costs

21. MAKING THE TRANSITION TO
CARBON-FREE ENERGY
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1.Learn the real costs of carbon, including the externalities.
2.Realize there is a very big renewable energy market.
$225-250 billion a year is already invested in renewables.
Many nations have a goal of 20% renewables by 2020.
3.Sputnik effect: Compete in renewables. The US gets 9%
of its energy from renewables, while Brazil gets 57%.
Iceland gets 100% of electricity from hydro and
geothermal. Some parts of Germany are 400%
renewable.
4.Unleash self driving electric vehicles.
5.Retrofit ICE vehicles for green ammonia. The fuel of the
future is NH3 made from sunshine, air, and water

22. ELECTRIC VEHICLES + SOLAR
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1. Electric vehicle motors are 5x more efficient than ICEs.
2. EVs cost 90% less to fuel, even with electricity at 13 cents a
kWh. There is already a PPA with Austin for 5 cents a kWh,
and by 2020, there will be some PPAs for less than 1.3%,
making EVs cost 99% less to fuel than ICEs.
3. Municipalities can simply set up solar trees in parking lots
and use them to charge EVs for free. There are 32 free EV
charging spaces in the garage 100 feet from where I live.
4. EVs cost 90% less to maintain.
5. EVs for fleets save $16,000 a year per vehicle.
6. EVs can serve as storage for both solar and for the cheapest
electricity, charging during the day, then powering home at
night. EV could be profit center.

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1. Autonomous vehicles are legal in California, Nevada,
Florida, and Michigan.
2. 40% of gasoline wasted looking for parking spaces.
3. Car use averages <2 hrs per day
4. 93% of Brazilians surveyed said they would send their
children to school via autonomous vehicle.
5. Tony Seba at Stanford estimates that EACH autonomous
vehicle sold would replace 15 traditional automobiles.
6. Car market collapse (82 million ICE vehicles in 2013) will
collapse to 6-7 million autonomous EVs by 2025.
SOLAR + EV + AUTODRIVE
= END OF OIL

24. 8-FOLD PATH TO ENDING
FOSSIL FUELS
1. Stop subsidizing and protecting FF ($2 trillion a year)
2. Setting a specific date for becoming
100% renewable, before 2030
3. Break up utility monopolies and separate generation from
transmission and distribution.
4. Allow Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and Master
Limited Partnerships (MLPs) to be able to invest in solar
and wind.

25. 8-FOLD PATH TO ENDING
FOSSIL FUELS
1. Stop subsidizing and protecting FF ($2 trillion a year)
2. Setting a specific date for becoming
100% renewable, before 2030
3. Break up utility monopolies and separate generation
from transmission and distribution.
4. Allow Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and
Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) to be able to invest
in solar and wind.

26. MANY CITIES AND COMPANIES ARE AIMING
FOR 100% RENEWABLE ENERGY BEFORE 2030

27. 8-FOLD PATH TO ENDING
FOSSIL FUELS
1. Stop subsidizing and protecting FF ($2 trillion a year)
2. Setting a specific date for becoming
100% renewable, before 2030
3. Break up utility monopolies and separate generation
from transmission and distribution.
4. Allow Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and Master
Limited Partnerships (MLPs) to be able to invest in solar
and wind.

28. 8-FOLD PATH TO ENDING
FOSSIL FUELS
1. Stop subsidizing and protecting FF ($2 trillion a year)
2. Setting a specific date for becoming 100% renewable,
before 2030
3. Break up utility monopolies and separate generation
from transmission and distribution.
4. Allow Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and
Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) to be able to
invest in solar and wind.

29. 8-FOLD PATH TO ENDING
FOSSIL FUELS
5. End taxpayer and ratepayer subsidy that is a tax
levied by a corporation.
6. Reverse regulatory capture.
7. Implement an Emissions Trading System and a carbon
tax that gets larger each year. Use funds towards
renewables.
8. Make FF companies clean up their messes.

30. 8-FOLD PATH TO ENDING
FOSSIL FUELS
5. End taxpayer and ratepayer subsidy that is a tax levied
by a corporation.
6. Reverse regulatory capture.
7. Implement an Emissions Trading System and a carbon
tax that gets larger each year. Use funds towards
renewables.
8. Make FF companies clean up their messes.

31. 8-FOLD PATH TO ENDING
FOSSIL FUELS
5. End taxpayer and ratepayer subsidy that is a tax levied
by a corporation.
6. Reverse regulatory capture.
7. Implement an Emissions Trading System and a
carbon tax that gets larger each year. Use funds
towards renewables.
8. Make FF companies clean up their messes.

32. ETS & Carbon Tax
Implementation

33. 8-FOLD PATH TO ENDING
FOSSIL FUELS
5. End taxpayer and ratepayer subsidy that is a tax levied
by a corporation.
6. Reverse regulatory capture.
7. Implement an Emissions Trading System and a carbon
tax that gets larger each year. Use funds towards
renewables.
8. Make FF companies clean up their messes.

34. IF THE US GET FF FREE FAST, WE CAN SUPPLY ALL THIS
TO THE WORLD AT BEST PRICES AND GENERATE TENS
OF TRILLIONS
Prof. Mark Jacobson’s Shopping List to Make World Fossil Fuel Free by
2030: Number of Plants or Devices to Power World (only 40% solar)
TECHNOLOGY PCT SUPPLY 2030 NUMBER
5-MW wind 50% 3.8 mill. (1% now)
0.75-MW wave 1% 720,000
100-MW geothermal 4% 5350 (1.7now)
1300-MW hydro 4% 900 (70% now)
1-MW tidal 1% 490,000
3-kW Roof PV 6% 1.7 billion
300-MW Solar PV 14% 40,000
300-MW CSP 20% 49,000
100%

36. Mark Jacobson
Director, Atmosphere/Energy Program, Stanford
University
“THERE IS NO TECHNOLOGICAL OR ECONOMIC
BARRIER TO CONVERTING THE ENTIRE
WORLD TO CLEAN, RENEWABLE ENERGY
SOURCES. IT IS A QUESTION OF WHETHER WE
HAVE THE SOCIETAL AND POLITICAL WILL.”