Fuel from thin air – solar liquid fuels: Most Overlooked Biofuels Story #4

July 27, 2010 |

Though readers now routinely make news about Joule Unlimited a “must-read”, when this “Fuel From Thin Air: No Biomass, No Extraction, No Kidding” profile ran last December as our second in-depth look, many readers had not acquired the Joule habit, and page views were respectable but not outstanding.

The idea of solar liquid fuels – that is, creating a fuel molecule directly from sunlight, CO2 and water unsung an engineered microbe, seemed far-fetched to many. The DOE’s subsequent grants to several early-stage solar liquid fuel projects, as well as “electrofuels”, made Joule seem a lot more mainstream.

Even yesterday, our article on solar liquid fuels (now that they have hit the mainstream) was the lowest-rated “read” of all the Top 10 Stories of the Year that we presented in yesterday’s Digest,. Suggesting that the technology’s developers still has not quite convinced readers that you can really, really make fuels from sunlight, CO2 and water.

Category: Fuels

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