US NAVY TO CONVERT SEA WATER INTO JET FUEL!
http://www.nrl.navy.mil/media/news-r...ks-to-the-seas
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Fueling the Fleet, Navy Looks to the SeasRefueling U.S. Navy vessels, at sea and underway, is a costly endeavor in terms of logistics, time, fiscal constraints and threats to national security and sailors at sea.In Fiscal Year 2011, the U.S. Navy Military Sea Lift Command, the primary supplier of fuel and oil to the U.S. Navy fleet, delivered nearly 600 million gallons of fuel to Navy vessels underway, operating 15 fleet replenishment oilers around the globe.
http://www.nrl.navy.mil/PressRelease...2r_372x559.jpgRefueling Navy vessels at sea can prove in many ways to be a costly endeavor. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is developing the chemistry for producing jet fuel from renewable resources in theater. The process envisioned would catalytically convert CO2 and H2 directly to liquid hydrocarbon fuel used as JP-5.
(U.S. Navy Military Sea Lift Command) http://www.nrl.navy.mil/PressRelease.../magnifier.pngFrom Seawater to CO2
Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory are developing a process to extract carbon dioxide (CO2) and produce hydrogen gas (H2) from seawater, subsequently catalytically converting the CO2 and H2 into jet fuel by a gas-to-liquids process. Continue...
Interesting reading. The concept has been around for awhile, but only recently the military takes some interest in them.
