But can they recharge our new electric fighter planes?
(Ducking…)
No need for electric fighters the Navy has already successfully made and flown on electric power made jet fuel that’s actually higher in density and has a lower cloud point to JP8 in English that means it’s a superior fuel in every way to fossil JP8. They intend on using the carriers nuclear reactor to power the process removing the need for a fleet oiler to sail half way around the world into hostile water and deliver JP8/5.
“In 2014, a Naval Research Laboratory team led by Heather Willauer announced it had used a catalytic converter to extract carbon dioxide and hydrogen from seawater and then converted the gases into liquid hydrocarbons at a 92 percent efficiency rate.”