Matt Jones – Planetary Energy System Changes at Street Level

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”We don’t have an energy problem, we have a matter problem.”

Matt Jones (he/him) is an American designer with a background at Google, where he was a Principal Designer for eight years. Most recently, he has been working with clean energy products at Lunar Energy. Since having left Lunar he is now focusing on his new venture Kardashev Street, which aims to help the solar energy sector harness more of the power already available to us.

Have you heard of Nikolai Kardashev? Matt’s introduces the Kardashev Scale, measuring a civilisation’s technological advancement based on the amount of energy it is capable of harnessing. From the planetary to the stellar, even to the galactic scale – this might sound like the stuff of Star Trek, but it’s quite simple. Matt believes that with the existing wind, water and solar power available to us (plus storage capabilities) we can reach Type 1 living on the Kardashev scale – we’re currently only at 0.7.

By working with the 3Ds of energy: decarbonisation, digitisation and decentralisation – products like the solar batteries produced by Lunar can help us get all the electricity we need, while still leaving fossil fuels behind.