Making useful fuels from the sun and air? But the guys are German - I think I can trust them:
For the past two years, researchers led by Aldo Steinfeld, Professor of Renewable Energy Carriers at ETH Zurich, have been operating a solar mini-refinery on the roof of the Machine Laboratory in the centre of Zurich. This unique system can produce liquid transportation fuels, such as methanol or kerosene, from sunlight and air in a multi-stage thermochemical process.Read about it here.
I think this is fantastic. This is at last a valid use of solar. Solar does not belong on the grid. But this sort of thing is just great. Bravo.
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