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There's a law underpinning the very technology you're using to listen to my voice.

Moore's law.

In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore made a simple prediction that the number of transistors

squeezed onto an integrated circuit would double every couple of years.

He was right, of course, and with more components per circuit board came better performance

and lower cost electronics.

Moore's Law is the reason why you can store all the podcasts you want on your computer or phone

for virtually nothing today.

And if you charged your phone or your computer with solar, which I'm sure some of you have

just come across another guiding principle, Swanson's law.

According to that law, every time solar manufacturing capacity doubles, the cost of modules

declines 20%.

It too has held steady, and it's the reason why you can affordably charge your phone or computer

with a solar electric system on your roof today.

There's only one slight problem.

The guy who Swanson's law is named after, he didn't actually invent it like people think.

Well, it's, uh,'s first off it's a very strange thing to be

attached to this concept because in no way did I originate it goes way back.

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