Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change The Electrotech Revolution Will Not Be Fossilized | Ep231: Kingsmill Bond
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Nov 3, 2025 Kingsmill Bond, a strategist at Ember and co-author of the Electrotech Revolution report, discusses a radical shift from fossil fuels to electrified technologies. He argues that this transition represents abundance, not sacrifice. The conversation covers how solar and wind are outpacing fossil fuels globally and the implications of China's leadership in the energy sector. Bond emphasizes the need for Western nations to adapt and compete. They also touch on how sectors like transport are nearing fossil peaks and the significant role of heat pumps in decarbonization.
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Personal Berlin Memory From 1989
- Kingsmill Bond recounts being in Berlin on 10 November 1989 while studying German in Munich.
- He describes that night as feeling like 'freeing Europe', which shaped his connection to the city.
Electrotech As A Systemic Shift
- The Electrotech Revolution reframes the energy transition as a systemic shift to electrons, not just sacrifice or more fossil fuels.
- Rapid growth of solar, wind, EVs, heat pumps and connections is creating a new energy system that displaces the old.
Tech Convergence Creates Turning Points
- Multiple technologies (solar, batteries, power electronics) are converging now to create effects larger than individual advances.
- That convergence produces a turning point where the old fossil-based system hits a peak and begins to decline.
