Desert solar to fuel centuries of air travel

(SolarPACES) Researchers at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have concentrated 3,000 'suns' of solar thermal energy into a solar reactor   at 1,500 ° C for thermochemical splitting of H2O and CO2 into hydrogen and carbon monoxide (syngas), the precursor to kerosene and other liquid fuels.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - Category: Biology Source Type: news