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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
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This would be pretty cool if it ever actually gets implemented.
To: TangledUpInBlue
So are they using the nuke power to crack sea water and combine with carbon from the air to make fuel for jets?
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posted on
04/07/2014 9:16:45 AM PDT
by
GraceG
To: GraceG; TangledUpInBlue
Since using a uranium or plutonium reactor is forbidden these days, if it uses a reactor it would be a thorium fueled system.
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posted on
04/07/2014 9:18:59 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: TangledUpInBlue
Turning seawater into fuel?
I heard General Motors and Standard Oil bought the patent on that 80 years ago, then hid it away in a vault with the patents on the 100 year wet cell battery, the 1,000 mpg carburetor and the 100,000 mile tire.
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posted on
04/07/2014 9:19:46 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(The future ain't what it use to be -- Yogi Berra)
To: TangledUpInBlue
Is this like the bio-fuel the Air Force adapted? Only 100+ dollars a gallon vice 8 bucks for JetA?
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posted on
04/07/2014 9:22:26 AM PDT
by
hattend
(Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
To: hattend
"For the first time we've been able to develop a technology to get CO2 and hydrogen from seawater simultaneously, that's a big breakthrough," she said, adding that the fuel "doesn't look or smell very different."
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posted on
04/07/2014 9:28:11 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
To: TangledUpInBlue; sully777; vigl; Cagey; Abathar; A. Patriot; B Knotts; getsoutalive; muleskinner; ..
Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.....
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posted on
04/07/2014 9:29:26 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
To: Red Badger
The predicted cost of jet fuel using the technology is in the range of three to six dollars per gallon, say experts at the US Naval Research Laboratory, who have already flown a model airplane with fuel produced from seawater. Now, I'm impressed.
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posted on
04/07/2014 9:32:03 AM PDT
by
hattend
(Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
To: Iron Munro
If the Navy can do it at sea, then WE CAN DO IT ON LAND..........................
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posted on
04/07/2014 9:34:48 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
To: Red Badger
This is terrible news for OPEC and Russia.
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posted on
04/07/2014 9:36:29 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: Red Badger
And at the same time Osama Obama is trying to neuter our Navy...and Army...and Air Force...and Marine Corps.
To: Gay State Conservative
The enviro-whackos will claim that we will use up all the sea water....................
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posted on
04/07/2014 9:51:50 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
To: Enterprise
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posted on
04/07/2014 9:52:38 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
04/07/2014 9:58:26 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Red Badger
This is the antidote to those rising seas from AGW
. < / humor >
To: hattend
Jet A fuel is in the $6 range currently so this process would be comparable or better.
Naturally, the article and claims are mostly air without any details about the processes used and a link to some test results.
Perhaps they are using the CO2 produced by the ship engines along with hydrogen obtained through electrolysis or high temperature dissociation to feed some variation of the Fischer-Tropsch process to yield liquids. That does not sound like a more efficient substitute for simply carrying Jet A on board.
Now if you add a nuclear reactor to provide the needed energy (electrical and/or heat), then you may be able to see the claimed results. That might make sense for a flattop but would not have much use in a submarine. All the U.S. nuclear cruisers have long been retired, so I can't see where it would work for turbine or diesel craft.
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posted on
04/07/2014 10:13:12 AM PDT
by
Jeff F
To: Red Badger
YOU USED UP ALL THE SEA WATER ON PURPOSE!
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posted on
04/07/2014 10:22:25 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
To: TangledUpInBlue
"Vice Admiral Philip Cullom declared: "It's a huge milestone for us. We are in very challenging times where we really do have to think in pretty innovative ways to look at how we create energy, how we value energy and how we consume it."Vice Admiral Cullom seems to have forgotten the First Law of Thermodynamics: "Energy can neither be created nor destroyed". The story, too, implies that this law has conveniently been circumvented. Maybe Obama is as great as he thinks he is.
To: Red Badger
US Navy plans to evaporate the seas... definitely a headline for the NYT.
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posted on
04/07/2014 10:26:56 AM PDT
by
MrEdd
(vHeck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: TangledUpInBlue
Obama is proposing that our navy should decomission all ships and then build Viking long boats powered by oars for a better carbon footprint.
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posted on
04/07/2014 10:45:57 AM PDT
by
12th_Monkey
(One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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