Showing posts with label trucks. Show all posts
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Saturday, December 25, 2010

On the horizon: Liquid fuels made by sunlight

Fossil fuels won't last forever, so scientists and engineers are looking for new and effective ways to capture solar energy to produce liquid fuel. One promising technique relies on a common material about people have never heard of - the element cerium.

Sunlight pours a lot of energy onto the rise of the Earth. But one huge challenge is to project out how to get that vigour and turning it into fuels to force our cars and trucks.