The World Ahead | By Invitation: Science & technology in 2025
Large-scale production of synthetic fuel is now feasible, argues the founder of Terraform Industries
By Casey Handmer, founder of Terraform Industries
What if we could make cheap fuel out of thin air? For more than a century, a bewildering variety of methods has been attempted to make drop-in replacements for fossil fuels. Such synthetic fuels could be used with existing energy, transport and industrial infrastructure, collectively worth over $100trn.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition of The World Ahead 2025 under the headline “The new economics of renewable energy”