"...Ninety percent of a turbine's parts can be recycled or sold, according to Van Vleet, but the blades, made of a tough but pliable mix of resin and fiberglass — similar to what spaceship parts are made from — are a different story.
'The blades are kind of a dud because they have no value,' he said.
Decommissioned blades are also notoriously difficult and expensive to transport. They can be anywhere from 100 to 300 feet long and need to be cut up onsite before getting trucked away on specialized equipment — which costs money — to the landfill. ..."
"Yo dawg, I heard you're thinking of a new way to make money...so I wrote a book about thinking of a new way to make money so you can think about a new way to make money while I make money from you thinking about my new way to think about making money."
You could do a lot worse than becoming familiar with Few's "Information Dashboard Design" book, and the Perceptual Edge blog contains a wealth of material, some of which ended up in his subsequent books.
Older posts on his blog also include reviews of different author's books, often having to do with cognition or analysis related topics which are also informative. Seems he has retired from his consultant business and now blogs at: http://www.stephen-few.com
No, it has not taken off exponentially yet in the way the Tony Seba video demonstrates with a picture of 5th Ave in NYC in the year 1900 where there are lots of horses used for transportation, and only one car, compared with a picture of the same street in 1913, where the street is full of cars, and there is only one horse to be found.
There's the formal definition of "exponential", and then there is "exponential" in the sense of completely disruptive and transformative as in the example Tony Seba gives. I am referring to the latter.
Tony Seba has an interesting perspective on "Clean Disruption of Energy & Transportation", with one of the main takeaways being as options like solar become more viable, their takeoff could be exponential rather than moving up gradually in a straight line.
Also, more immediately interesting is how first world reliance on the grid could be changing.
"Distributed Energy Poised for 'Explosive Growth' on the US Grid"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glSXghzDZcs&feature=youtu.be...