Scientists from the University of Cambridge in the UK have created a plant to capture carbon dioxide from the air and then produce synthetic fuel using solar energy. This is clean production without fossil fuels.
Directly capturing carbon dioxide from the air can reduce the negative climate impact of greenhouse gas emissions from industry, transport, agriculture and society as a whole.
Today, the dominant approach in this area is to capture and store CO2 in natural reservoirs on Earth. Only recently, the UK government pledged to allocate £22 billion for these purposes, but this will not solve the problem of reducing emissions.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge offer a radical solution to the problem. As governments, environmentalists, and investors look to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere through capture, it makes sense to do something useful with it right away, rather than hoping that the liquefied or gaseous CO2 will be safely stored underground.
From this gas, using catalysts, it is possible to produce many chemical compounds for industrial production and even synthetic fuel. Isn't it a dream to take something unnecessary and even harmful and use it for good without harming nature?
The synthetic fuel reactor, developed and tested by scientists, absorbs carbon dioxide from the air at night and starts working with the first rays of the sun. Using water, heating individual components with sunlight, and using solar energy in its pure form and in the form of electricity, as well as a powdered semiconductor catalyst, the reactor begins to produce synthetic fuel.