New Reactor Paves the Way for Efficiently Producing Fuel from Sunlight

[Wolfrunner]

ScienceDaily (Jan. 19, 2011) — Using a common metal most famously found in self-cleaning ovens, Sossina Haile hopes to change our energy future. The metal is cerium oxide -- or ceria -- and it is the centerpiece of a promising new technology developed by Haile and her colleagues that concentrates solar energy and uses it to efficiently convert carbon dioxide and water into fuels.

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[Starbeast from Planet X]

Very interesting, I just hope the governments don't muck it up for us.