23 March 2017, Article from dpa: Synlight is a project of DLR (German Aerospace Center) to develop new fuel for big planes. Synlight is a sun simulator – made from 149 lamps, normally used to show movies - clustered in a building in Jülich close to Aachen. It is droven by normal electricity to use the endless energy of the sun’s rays. One aim of the sun simulator is the efficient production of hydrogen / hydrogen peroxide, regarded as an environmentally friendly fuel of the future. The sun simulator is heating metal to 800 degrees Celsius, than the metal is sprayed with water vapour. The metal reacts with oxygen, the hydrogen remains.
