Register: Remorseless German and Austrian boffins have a cunning new plan which could be good news for cutting down on fossil fuel use: they can make “synthetic natural gas” using electric power, water and carbon dioxide. “Our demonstration system in Stuttgart splits water using electrolysis. The result is hydrogen and oxygen,” explains Dr Michael Specht of the Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung (Solar energy and Waterstuff [Hydrogen] Research centre – ZSW). “A chemical …