Sunlight, Carbon Dioxide, Water = Synthetic Energy Source

Sunlight, carbon dioxide and water, what can they do? Someone at the Sandia National Laboratories is building a fuel synthesizer using the above  A fuel generator consists of a stack of counter-rotating iron rings. Sunlight provides the heat to make water into steam which is introduced into the iron ring structure. The iron grabs the oxygen from water to form iron oxide and leaves behind hydrogen. Hydrogen can be combined with carbon monoxide to give you the fuel (gasoline, propane, methane are just different types of hydrocarbon bondings).

Where do you get carbon monoxide?? From the same structure described above, take away one of the oxygen O from carbon dioxide, CO2 (one of our major green house gases)

Like in Gundam 00, the humans are using solar power which lasts much longer than fossil fuel though I still don't understand how that solar power collector works in Gundam 00. You mean there is a big "long stick" coming out from planet Earth and rotates with it???