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US Navy 'game-changer': converting seawater into fuel
AFP/Yahoo ^ | 4/7/14 | Mathieu Rabechault

Posted on 04/07/2014 9:13:03 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

The US Navy believes it has finally worked out the solution to a problem that has intrigued scientists for decades: how to take seawater and use it as fuel.

The development of a liquid hydrocarbon fuel is being hailed as "a game-changer" because it would signficantly shorten the supply chain, a weak link that makes any force easier to attack.

The US has a fleet of 15 military oil tankers, and only aircraft carriers and some submarines are equipped with nuclear propulsion.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: globalwarminghoax; heatherwillauer; hydrocarbons; opec; philipcullom; unitedstatesnavy
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I smell BS.
(Not Bible Study)


21 posted on 04/07/2014 11:30:17 AM PDT by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: right way right

Maybe when they convert all the sea water to fuel, we’ll finally find Flight 370. :)


22 posted on 04/07/2014 11:39:01 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue (I have no home. I'm the wind.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Maybe when they convert all the sea water to fuel, we’ll finally find Flight 370. :)

CNN is going to buy the patent on this and lock it up, otherwise they will have no content if they find 370...

23 posted on 04/07/2014 12:08:25 PM PDT by Mannaggia l'America
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To: norwaypinesavage

“Vice Admiral Cullom seems to have forgotten the First Law of Thermodynamics: “Energy can neither be created nor destroyed”.”

This whole story doesn’t pass the smell-test. You sure it wasn’t dateline “April Fool’s Day”?


24 posted on 04/07/2014 12:26:15 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Tallguy

ditto that!


25 posted on 04/08/2014 6:15:34 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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To: Jeff F

Why don’t we have more nuclear powered ships?


26 posted on 04/22/2014 7:14:56 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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