All-in-one solar tower produces jet fuel from CO2, water and sunlight

Taking carbon dioxide, water and sunlight as its only inputs, this solar thermal tower in Spain produces carbon-neutral, sustainable versions of diesel and jet fuel. Built and tested by researchers at ETH Zurich, it’s a promising clean fuel project.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

All-in-one solar tower produces jet fuel from CO2, water and sunlight

Taking carbon dioxide, water and sunlight as its only inputs, this solar thermal tower in Spain produces carbon-neutral, sustainable versions of diesel and jet fuel. Built and tested by researchers at ETH Zurich, it’s a promising clean fuel project.

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Interesting. If this thing works as efficiently as suggested it could well be a game changer.

Especially for countries with lots of space and sunshine.

Obv we have been talking about plants like these for years, such as the Norwegian Blue Crude plants they started on in 2017. I suppose it is interesting that these people have built a plant that has water as the input rather than hydrogen, and that the reformation to diesel/avgas takes place at the same plant, but it’s not going to be worth much unless they can improve that efficiency.