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How a German Factory Is Making Jet Fuel from Sunlight
Episode 87 of The Manufacturing Podcast visits the outskirts of Jülich, Germany, where a pilot plant called Synhelion is doing something that sounds almost too simple: concentrating sunlight to extreme heat to split CO₂ and water into syngas, then refining that into jet fuel. Lucas and Luna walk through the numbers — 1,500 degrees Celsius inside a solar receiver, a target of 100,000 liters of solar kerosene per year by 2027, and why the aviation industry's decarbonization problem is uniquely hard because batteries are too heavy. They discuss the cost challenge: Synhelion's fuel…
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