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Three engineers leading the field in clean energy solutions come together for a special event presented by Kevin Fong at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

You cant go out today and buy perovskite solar cells, but were building a production line at the moment. were talking about next year, the first cells and modules will be in production and start to be deployed in the world. so this is all fantastic, this is state—of—the—art technology and engineering that is market ready or nearly market ready. so is the message that i should get that you are going to gallop to my rescue when it comes to climate change? that i can carry on with my life as ...

Solutions that are good for the individual, but the biggest challenge ahead of us isnt technology, its public acceptance. its support for improved permitting and collaboration on changes to ensure that migration patterns for birds are known and we dont site wind turbines in those areas or wind farms in that space. but there cantjust 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 toge...

Is a tandem cell, two solar cells on top of each other. and the perovskite we can tune to match perfectly silicon. it absorbs only the visible light and we let the silicon absorb all the infrared. and in doing that we actually fundamentally improve the efficiencies. if we made a perfect perovskite on silicon tandem cell, that would top out at about 45%, so weve fundamentally lifted the ceiling. and if we went one step further to anotherjunction, triple junction, three junctions, that would top o...

Out in the world, itd 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 weve 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 requir...

The stored hydrogen, use that as a power source. so its traditional power stations, but using green hydrogen as the power source. thank you. im 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, weve already seen one — first wind turbi...

In the uk where we use the stored hydrogen, use that as a power source. so its traditional power stations, but using green hydrogen as the power source. thank you. im 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, weve seen one — f...

Solutions that are good for the individual, but the biggest challenge ahead of us isnt technology, its public acceptance. its support for improved permitting and collaboration on changes to ensure that migration patterns for birds are known, and we dont site wind turbines in those areas or wind farms in that space. but there cantjust 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 tog...

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, itd 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 weve got representatives of wind and s...

You cant go out today and buy perovskite solar cells, but were building a production line at the moment. were talking about next year, the first cells and modules will be in production, and start to be deployed in the world. so this is all fantastic, this is state—of—the—art technology and engineering that is market ready or nearly market ready. so is the message i should get that you are going to gallop to my rescue when it comes to climate change? that i can carry on with my life as i al...