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US Navy Develops a Technique to Produce Jet Fuel from Sea Water
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington is working to develop a system that can produce jet fuel from seawater.
Last year the US Naval Military Sea Lift Command, the main fuel supplier to Naval vessels that are at sea, delivered around 600 million gallons to ships that were on the open water.
Refuelling is a very difficult and dangerous procedure when two vessels are at sea, especially if the seas are rough, or there is a storm, or even in the middle of a fire fight. Yet it is also vital as running out of fuel would be devastating to a naval ship in action.
The NRL has designed a system which harvests carbon dioxide and hydrogen, the raw ingredients of jet fuel, from the seawater. NRL discovered that gathering carbon dioxide from the seawater was far more efficient than getting it from the air because the concentration in seawater is 140 times greater. The hydrogen and carbon dioxide go through several processes to create olefins (a hydrocarbon), and then two more steps to turn the olefins into suitable jet fuel.
So far the lab tests have indicated that the process will produce jet fuel at a cost of around $3 - $6 per gallon. Now all that is needed is large scale tests on the open sea.
By. Joao Peixe of Oilprice.com The No.1 source for Oil Prices
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If it is true, they have made one of the greatest breakthroughs in all of human history, worthy of a Nobel Prize in chemistry or physics.
So why not use the surplus periods to produce jet and other fuels.
I am not sure how the DoD came up with the price of $3 to $6 per gallon but if the process involved only surplus energy that might be given a price of $0, then the price per gallon might be very competitive.
So i guess they are using electricity from a nuclear reactor on the ship. you need a fancy process like this to make a liquid hydrocarbon, because you can't run a plane directly on electricity.
(sorry for the break in comment)
Many large naval ships such as aircraft carriers are nuclear powered. Aircraft such as fighter jets are not. If they can use surplus nuclear energy from the ship to produce jet fuel for the aircraft, the loss of energy through inefficiencies is outweighed by the benefit of avoiding
I wonder if vets will get a discount? US Army, last in line..
Hurry, everyone drive to a shoreline near you....
this. So far, they have done everything possible to kill all DoD-supported alternative fuel research, claiming that alternative fuels cost too much. Of course, the real reason is they they are in Big Oil's pocket and are going even so far as jeapordizing the security of the United States in trying to prevent all Armed Services buy of alternative fuel when all of DoD is trying to find ways to reduce their dependancy on foreign oil supplies. This has to stop NOW!!!
Joke aside, this is amazing, because is yet so simple.
Those reports of UFOs sumerging into water, coming out of water or travelling very fast through water start making sense.
Could it go one step further to produce gas for cars?