This Concentrating Solar Power Plant Makes Fuel From Sunlight
cleantechnica.com
Solar fuels can support the economic case for concentrating solar power plants, which produce high heat for industrial processes.

Solar fuels can support the economic case for concentrating solar power plants, which produce high heat for industrial processes.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 days ago

    …all fossil fuels are made from the sun?

    What do people think all the fossils were doing back then? Harnessing energy from magic?

    Sorry, not trying to pass judgement on the tech, it seems very advanced and I am all for more green energy solutions just gestures at the immense amount of fossilized formerly photosynthesizing organisms

    • SpicyLizards@reddthat.comEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      Yes, but that carbon is locked underground. Here it looks like existing carbon is being repurposed from the atmosphere, theoretically not increasing the current atmospheric carbon load.