March
21, 2017 photo engineer, Volkmar Dohmen stands in front of xenon
short-arc lamps in the DLR German national aeronautics and space
research center in Juelich, western Germany. The lights are part of an
artificial sun that will be used for research purposes. (Caroline
Seidel/dpa via AP)
hehehehe......... German
scientists on Thursday, launched what is being billed as the world's
largest artificial sun with the intention of conducting research on the
creation of climate-friendly fuel.
In what has been described as "the world's largest artificial sun",
Scientists in Germany have flipped the switch in a breakthrough on
technology as they hope that it will help shed light on new ways of
making climate-friendly fuel.
According to Dailymail UK,
the newly launched "Synlight" experiment is made up of 149 high-powered
lamps totalling about 350 kilowatts, in Juelich, a small town in the
western state of North Rhine Westphalia.
Starting on Thursday, scientists from the German Aerospace Center
will start experimenting with this dazzling array to try to find ways of
tapping the enormous amount of energy that reaches Earth in the form of
light from the sun.
One area of research will focus on how to efficiently produce
hydrogen, a first step toward making artificial fuel for airplanes.
The experiment uses as much electricity in four hours as a four-person household would in a year.
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