solar was a 24% learning curve rate, meaning for every doubling of solar power volume out in the world, it d be 24% reduction in cost. and as you continue to see volume increase in these technologies you will continue to see cost reduction. thank you so much, danielle. so we are now going to go to scotland, to alastair, who has a question about nuclear energy. hello, today we ve got representatives of wind and solar, which are often portrayed as the two examples of clean energy. but there are still huge challenges with the amount of land required and energy storage required challenges which aren t faced by existing nuclear power technology, something i would argue we really need to prioritise. i wonder if you think nuclear should form a key part of the clean energy mix, and should be a large part of the discussion today, and if not, how do we ensure we invest in and choose the most effective technologies that are going to make the biggest difference to stopping climate change? nuclea
of technologies at scale. it will certainly develop and deliver lower cost solutions that are good for the individual, but the biggest challenge ahead of us isn t technology, it s public acceptance. it s support for improved permitting and collaboration on changes to ensure that migration patterns for birds are known, and we don t site wind turbines in those areas or wind farms in that space. but there can tjust be a wholesale rejection of this technology because of the threat of something that would be negative. that collaboration is the real opportunity for us to work together. so it s a partnership, really, it s you delivering the technologies that make the future possible, and us adopting them and making the right choices to protect us from this growing threat. we re going to move to questions now. this is the engineers: clean energy. we ve been discussing the future of solar energy, wind power and electrical storage, and i m going to ask
if they can fill the gap for winter power, for instance, in the uk where we use the stored hydrogen, you use that as a power source. so it s traditional power stations but using green hydrogen as the power source. thank you. i m going to look for another question in the room here at the v&a. hi, my name is shivika from imperial college. i just want to know about the future regarding the airborne wind turbines. what do you think that in the near term there is a future for airborne because google investing in airborne wind turbine system, we ve seen one first wind turbine system in germany. so what is the future of that technology? so, we ve had land, we ve had sea and now we re asking about air turbines. i m fascinated to hear the answer to this. for those who haven t heard about this concept the airborne based wind farms, are essentially like kites or tethered aeroplanes that are released up into the very high atmospheres, essentially at a very high altitude.
of us isn t technology, it s public acceptance. it s support for improved permitting and collaboration on changes to ensure that migration patterns for birds are known, and we don t site wind turbines in those areas or wind farms in that space. but there can tjust be a wholesale rejection of this technology because of the threat of something that would be negative. that collaboration is the real opportunity for us to work together. so it s a partnership, really, it s you delivering the technologies that make the future possible, and us adopting them and making the right choices to protect us from this growing threat. thank you so much. we re going to move to questions now. this is the engineers: clean energy. we ve been discussing the future of solar energy, wind power and electrical storage, and i m going to ask who would like to ask a question of any of our clean energy engineers. hi, i m ajay gambier, -
technology being put out into the world comes out with a cost reduction. so each curve will have a different rate of learning. solar was a 24% learning curve rate, meaning for every doubling of solar power volume out in the world, it d be 24% reduction in cost. and as you continue to see volume increase in these technologies you will continue to see cost reduction. thank you so much, danielle. so we are now going to go to scotland, to alastair, who has a question about nuclear energy. alastair? hello, today we ve got representatives of wind and solar, which are often portrayed as the two examples of clean energy. but there are still huge challenges with the amount of land required and energy storage required challenges which aren t faced by existing nuclear power technology, something i would argue we really need to prioritise. i wonder if you think nuclear should form a key part of the clean energy mix, and should be a large part of the discussion today, and if not, how do we ensure