Turn sunlight and air into liquid fuel

CO2 and water extracted from the surrounding air will be pumped into the solar reactor, while using heat from the Sun to separate molecules into hydrogen and carbon monoxide.

Liquid fuel is used for aircraft, ships, cars produced from sunlight and air. This work is being studied by Swiss scientists.

This is a mini solar filter system studied at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

This is a mini solar filter system built by the research team at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. CO2 and water extracted from the surrounding air will be pumped into the solar reactor and use solar heat to separate molecules into hydrogen and carbon monoxide, also called syngas .

According to the research team, converging the sun will produce a temperature high enough for rapid thermoelectric reactions, accelerating synthesis gas production. This syngas can easily be processed into today's popular petroleum, liquid, methanol and other fuels.

Now this mini-filtration system can generate 100 milliliters of fuel per day, and the team is aiming to have the first solar-powered plant with a production capacity of about 10 million liters of methanol by 2025. each year.

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