One of the capable technologies that would be able to harness energy from major renewable energy forms such as photovoltaics, wind, and hydrothermal to reduce CO2 to hydrocarbon fuels for selective biosynthesis systems is Hybrid Photosynthesis.
This technology ranges from completely abiotic, using solar photovoltaics or light capture materials coupled to electrocatalysts that are able to produce storage molecules like \(H_2\) and formic acid (REF- Appel 2003, White 2015, to efforts to improve the efficiency of natural photosynthesis by genetic engineering (Figure \ref{345033}).