ScienceAlert: We’ve seen it with computers, now we’re seeing it in solar power. Down the track, the result will be be clean, green, safe, cheap solar electricity — years before carbon capture and storage and nuclear power is ever even ready. The reason is ‘The Learning Curve.’ It’s as powerful a force in economics as the force of gravity is in physics. What the Learning Curve means is that as research and development gears up in the industry, prices fall ever more rapidly. The compound effects are …