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Topic selected by Nick Paul on solar fuel generation. The top two contenders, which have moved into industrial scale, are biomass and syngas/Fisher-Tropsh. Link to a review on the uses and applications of biomass/biofuels (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/311/5760/484.full.pdf) and a research article demonstrating efforts to understand the mechanisms in an industrial catalyst (Cu/ZnO/Al2O3) currently used in syngas conversion (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6083/893.full.pdf).