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Hi, i'm ajay gambier, - iworkjust around the corner at the grantham institute for- climate change and the environment at imperial college. i would like to ask, i is it a surprise to any i of you that we are now in this world i where we are seeing cost—competitive clean energy that can - compete with fossil fuels, or was that, in your mind, - an inevitability, and if so, why? i'm going to offer that to danielle. so, danielle? thank you, yes. i think it was inevitable, and one of the reasons why most in this space would say that is that we can see these learning curves of cost reduction over t...

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 initiatives. hi, i'm ajay gambier, - iworkjust around the corner at the grantham institute for- climate change and the environment at imperial college. i would like to ask, i is it a surprise to any i of you that we are now in this world i where we are seeing cost—competitive clean energy that can - compete with fossil fuels, or was that, in your mind, - an inevitability, and if so, why? i'm going to offer that to danielle. so, ...

Is it a surprise to any i of you that we are now in this world i where we are seeing cost—competitive clean energy that can - compete with fossil fuels, or was that, in your mind, - an inevitability, and if so, why? i'm going to offer that to danielle. so, danielle? thank you, yes. i think it was inevitable, and one of the reasons why most in this space would say that is that we can see these learning curves of cost reduction over time, over decades of time. in solar, in wind, in battery, in most technical arenas, where the certain doubling, for example, the volume of this technology being p...

This technology being put out into the world, comes out with the cost reduction. so each curve will have a different rate of learning. solar was a 24% learning curve rate, meaning that for every doubling of solar power volume out in the world, it would 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. we will now go to scotland, to alastair, who has a question about nuclear energy. today we got representatives of wind and solar, which are often portrayed as the two examples of clean ...

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