{"id":143097,"date":"2022-07-29T10:04:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T15:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/engineers-turn-water-into-carbon-neutral-jet-fuel-using-solar-radiation"},"modified":"2022-07-29T10:04:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T15:04:13","slug":"engineers-turn-water-into-carbon-neutral-jet-fuel-using-solar-radiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/engineers-turn-water-into-carbon-neutral-jet-fuel-using-solar-radiation","title":{"rendered":"Engineers Turn Water into Carbon-Neutral Jet Fuel Using Solar Radiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-turn-water-into-carbon-neutral-jet-fuel-using-solar-radiation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A carbon-neutral synthesis of kerosene, or jet fuel, has been produced by scientists, made by combining sunlight with water.<\/p>\n<p>5% of human emissions are generated through kerosene use in aviation, which currently has no alternative for long haul jetting.<\/p>\n<p>It consists of 169 sun-tracking reflective panels that redirect and concentrate solar radiation into a solar reactor on top of a tower built at IMDEA Energy Institute in Madrid back in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A carbon-neutral synthesis of kerosene, or jet fuel, has been produced by scientists, made by combining sunlight with water. 5% of human emissions are generated through kerosene use in aviation, which currently has no alternative for long haul jetting. It consists of 169 sun-tracking reflective panels that redirect and concentrate solar radiation into a solar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}