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title: "Good news, everyone! "Carbon-neutral transportation is feasible with…"
date: 2021-12-28
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# Good news, everyone! "Carbon-neutral transportation is feasible with…

*December 28, 2021 · Facebook*

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[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04174-y](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04174-y){target="_blank"}
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Good news, everyone!\
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\"Carbon-neutral transportation is feasible with electric motors powered by rechargeable batteries, but is challenging, if not impossible, for long-haul commercial travel, particularly air travel4. A promising solution are drop-in fuels (synthetic alternatives for petroleum-derived liquid hydrocarbon fuels such as kerosene, gasoline or diesel) made from H2O and CO2 by solar-driven processes\...\
While individual steps of such a scheme have been implemented, here we demonstrate the operation of the entire thermochemical solar fuel production chain, from H2O and CO2 captured directly from ambient air to the synthesis of drop-in transportation fuels (for example, methanol and kerosene), with a modular 5 kWthermal pilot-scale solar system operated under field conditions. \"\
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[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04174-y](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04174-y){target="_blank"}
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