00:00I think this is also a good spot for the world's fastest
00:04seamstress.
00:05Because that beige building over there,
00:08if you follow, that is this building
00:10in front of number 10.
00:11That is our government building.
00:13It's called the Stenbrock House.
00:14So that is where our government is at.
00:17The big cone-shaped church over there
00:20is a Russian Orthodox church.
00:22And funnily enough, our parlor is across the street
00:24from that.
00:27And the tall tower with the flag,
00:29that we say is like a must-have.
00:31It's hardly ascending.
00:33Firstly, when you gain free independence,
00:35that is the first place where in Estonia
00:37you flag them up after a decade.
00:40And why it has a sweet spot in everybody's hearts
00:43is that every sunrise and the sunset,
00:46they raise or lower the flag while hanging down there.
00:49You walk around this town, and you hear them,
00:52and you're like, ooh, the sun is going down.
00:55For example, our embassy is that close to the tower.
00:58And then you think around it, and there's a sunset
01:01still out there, and you're also like,
01:03ah, the sun is setting, because we can hear it
01:05getting up, you know?
01:08Yeah, but that's the short tour.
01:10But I would like to take you to the main part
01:13that we are here today.
01:14So the first, I want to introduce you to Sunli.
01:17They're our hosts.
01:19And I have two representatives here
01:21who know a lot better what they do.
01:23What do you do?
01:27Look at this. So what are we looking at here?
01:29You're looking at a project that's located
01:31in the western part of Estonia.
01:34So this is a project that we are already building,
01:36and it's already financed.
01:38So at the moment, the works are ongoing on the site.
01:40But this project is a hybrid project.
01:43What does it mean?
01:45Like, it's not only a PV or wind or battery storage.
01:50It's also everything together.
01:52So we are utilizing the substation here.
01:55So what it means is that, basically,
01:57we can use the grid more efficiently.
01:59So this is the main goal of it,
02:01because if you put only the PV into the grid,
02:04these kind of projects are the projects that are needed,
02:07because we are basically utilizing
02:09the same grid connection point.
02:11It was some technology that emerged from the,
02:13let's say, from the couloirs, in that sense.
02:16The technology moved on so rapidly, innovation-wise.
02:20And, yeah, the technology has crazily speeded up,
02:23because if you look at the size...
02:25Big problem, if the big concentrated power systems
02:31are under whatever...
02:33One soup, essentially.
02:35And anything else, that's life-saving.
02:38And sort of helping with energy security and...
02:41That's five liters.
02:43That's roughly four-something kilowatt-hours in the tank.
02:47The one we have now, that we put together,
02:50is seven-plus kilowatt-hours,
02:52to really extend the endurance.
02:54Plus, because it's pre-stored, actually, right?
02:56They store it in batteries.
02:57They also store it in batteries.
02:59We put that in anything first-response-related.
03:02So we're looking at maritime use cases, actually, as well.
03:06Battery drones with 20 minutes,
03:07like you don't have somewhere to land.
03:10So we have a two-hour flight range, right?
03:13So we can go there, come back, as well.
03:16And, of course, there's different ones,
03:17like detecting oil spills.
03:19So this year, we will start going through...
03:21Can we head right to the next one?
03:23So here, we have a company called Alcatelist.
03:28This is a better climate,
03:29because we are basically putting the CO2 into the storm.
03:33They're not climate-neutral, they're climate-positive,
03:36because they're taking CO2 out of the air.
03:38It used to be CO2, invisible gas,
03:40and then we have technology to turn this into solid rock.
03:45How much CO2 is in the air?
03:47So the ratio is, we consumed 3.7 units,
03:513.7 times of this.
03:53Is this the equivalent of one car running for a day?
03:56I mean, how much carbon dioxide?
03:58Yeah, that's a good calculation to make.
04:02But to build one car,
04:04it's about 100 kilos of this material.
04:10How do you get it to solidify?
04:12What's the process you go through?
04:13450 electric cars.
04:15But if we go according to our scale-up plan,
04:17then by 2030, we will utilize around a quarter of a million tons of CO2,
04:22which already provides better-grade graphite
04:26for around one million electric cars.
04:28Fantastic.
04:29But the processing here and voltage difference
04:32is applied into the molten salt,
04:35and CO2 is bubbled into the molten salt.
04:38And after...
04:39Well, thank you, first of all, for having me here today.
04:43Seeing all the fantastic innovation that's going on there
04:47reminds me of some of the stuff we're trying to do
04:49in the Earthshot Prize,
04:50which is trying to tackle some of the world's greatest environmental challenges.
04:54And it starts with solutions.
04:56It starts with innovation.
04:58It starts with scaling and spotlighting those who are doing brilliant things
05:02and giving them a bigger platform.
05:04As we heard from the solar guys talking about
05:06being on Grand Designs has suddenly increased their order book,
05:09and they're now being ordered and seen around the world.
05:12For me, innovation is a huge part of everything we're going to have to do
05:16for the energy transition.
05:18And I get...
05:20I'm very lucky I get to meet and see lots of amazing examples
05:24and amazing people doing incredible things with their new solutions.
05:28And so the Earthshot Prize came to me
05:31as a way of being able to highlight and showcase
05:33some of the people out there
05:35and give them the Grand Design platform, if you like,
05:39that showcases what they can do.
05:42But I think with all these things,
05:44it's a jigsaw.
05:46No one thing at the moment is going to fix all our problems,
05:49from pollution, plastics, ocean acidification,
05:52climate change, whatever it is.
05:54There's going to have to be lots of different things happening.
05:57And I liken the Earthshot Prize to
06:00not necessarily finding the silver bullet that we all want,
06:03but it might find lots of bronze bullets.
06:05And if we get lots of bronze bullets going,
06:07then the energy transition can really start happening.
06:09And we can target it in multiple ways and on multiple fronts.
06:13And for me, it's exciting seeing what we can innovate,
06:16because I think humans are the best when we innovate.
06:18I think it brings the best out of countries working together,
06:21it brings the best out of each other when we work together
06:24and come up with a challenge to beat.
06:26So these companies here are doing a fantastic job.
06:29And I was reading about how many white unicorns
06:32in the tech sector there are in Estonia.
06:34So I think there's a lot of UK-Estonian ideas brewing.
06:39And like you said, you finish off talking about scale.
06:42I think everything comes down to that,
06:44particularly the energy transition.
06:46We're up against it with time,
06:48and we need scale to be our biggest target.
06:50That's great.
06:52Both His Majesty the King and you,
06:54through the Earthshot Prize,
06:56have done so much already
06:58to try to generate a sense of urgency
07:01around repairing the planet.
07:03What's your message to people in Estonia on this?
07:06I think you're doing quite a lot as it is already.
07:09I think my message is keep doing more of the same.
07:12Like I said, there's clearly a lot of innovation,
07:14a lot of excitement and a lot of good brains here
07:17trying to tackle these problems.
07:19I think sometimes we can feel quite let down
07:22when things aren't going fast enough.
07:24It feels like two steps forward,
07:26one step back all the time in energy transition.
07:28But I think maintaining that momentum,
07:30maintaining that positivity,
07:32working together,
07:35and keep innovating.
07:37I think all these things which you're doing anyway,
07:39working with friends and partners like the UK and others,
07:43I think we can get there better and quicker
07:46than we can do by ourselves.
07:48For me, collaboration is the key.
07:50I think it's going to be the way
07:52we tackle these things much faster
07:54because we don't have the time.
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