This breakthrough fuel could reduce or even eliminate dangerous fracking in our backyards. Even better, it could make early investors extremely rich by the end of 2014!
Researchers have found a way to overcome the one problem that's plagued solar power for the last 30 years ... the ability to store and transport this energy over great distances.
In short, they've discovered a way to harvest the sun's energy and turn it into a powerful liquid fuel.
At the Sandia National Laboratories, they call the process "Sunshine to Petrol..."
" ... Liquid Solar Fuel is the end product," according to the engineers.
Sun Gas is a combustible fuel, just like the original natural gas – but here’s the important thing: if you burn it, you get around 25% more energy than there was in the original natural gas. This extra energ y is the ‘solar upgrade’. For example, if you were to use SolarGas in your gas stove to boil five eggs for breakfast, it’d be as if you were cooking one of those eggs with pure solar power. This may be a great way of storing solar energy by piggybacking it onto natural gas or other methane gas sources.
Solar Gas technology was developed by Australia’s national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation(CSIRO).
"[This Technology] could replace all the petroleum consumed today in the United States." — J. Davidson Engineering Professor, University Of Minnesota
Fast facts
- SolarGas™ contains more power than natural gas and embodies around 25 per cent solar energy in the form of chemical bonds
- SolarGas™ can be used as a feedstock to make liquid fuels such as diesel, methanol and gasoline
- This versatile fuel can be used for power generation, transport (fuel cell or hybrid natural gas – hydrogen powered vehicles) and gas appliances
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