British solar-powered flow reactor turns captured CO2 into synthetic fuel

Joris Van Roy

February 13, 2025

Professor Erwin Reisner (left) and his team managed to create a reactor that captures CO2 from the air and convert it into synthetic fuels to power cars, ships or planes /Cambridge University

A University of Cambridge scientists team, led by professor Erwin Reisner, has created a solar-powered flow reactor that can capture C02 from the air at night and convert it into fuels like diesel, methanol, or ammonia during the day with the help of the sun. If scaled up, it would theoretically
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