As the article uses the term is a mixture of CO and hydrogen. A Better Way to Make Fuel from Solar Energy | MIT Technology Review Here it is made from methane steam reformation, the steam from parabolic collectors. As a way to make electricity -- I am skeptical. I suspect though that the idea has merit as a way to use NG to power cars. On the road to clean transport, we probably need an interim step of non-coal based fossil fuel transport that is domestically sourced. NG fits that bill if it can be converted to a liquid analogue. As the article says, syngas made this way might also work as a way to store solar energy, either for later use for electricity or to make diesel. That really sounds like something useful.
