Sunshine to Petrol / Gas.
Counter Rotating Ring Receiver Reactor Recuperator (CR5)
The Sandia National Laboratories are developing a process for converting CO2, captured from a power station or from the air, to produce methane. The CO2 is broken down to carbon monoxide and oxygen using heat from solar reflectors - (Concentrated Solar Power - CSP). Water can also broken down to hydrogen and oxygen. Carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and oxygen, ultimately could be used to synthesize liquid fuels in an integrated S2P system.
CR5. Captured CO2 from a coal or gas turbine or IGCC power station would enable the energy in the fuel to effectively be used twice with this process.
Sunshine to Petrol - solar reflector with many flat mirrors - focus' sunrays onto the CR5 device.
Sandia website
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