11 million floating solar farms could eliminate carbon emissions from transport

An image showing an artist's conception of solar islands in the open ocean

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Marine methanol factories could produce fuel from seawater and carbon dioxide

Millions of marine floating islands, each as large as football fields and powered by sunlight, could harvest carbon dioxide and produce enough fuel to power the world’s planes, ships, trains and lorries. These solar methanol farms, proposed by scientists from Switzerland and Norway, could even eliminate all global fossil fuel emissions.