The Navy has developed a method of making Jet 5 fuel from hydrogn and co2 extracted from sea water. The goal is to let navy vessels to make their own jet fuel without having use refueling ships.
The price range projected is 3 to 6 bucks per gallon
http://www.nrl.navy.mil/media/news-rele ... ea-concept
This could be independence from oil producing countries if commercialized
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Post #1“What do you think science is? There is nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and using consistent logic to evaluate results. So which part of that exactly do you disagree with? Do you disagree with being thorough? Using careful observation? Being systematic? Or using consistent logic?�
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Post #2"If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell’s equations—then so much the worse for Maxwell’s equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation—well these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation." — Sir Arthur Stanley EddingtonGoat wrote: The Navy has developed a method of making Jet 5 fuel from hydrogn and co2 extracted from sea water. The goal is to let navy vessels to make their own jet fuel without having use refueling ships. The price range projected is 3 to 6 bucks per gallon This could be independence from oil producing countries if commercialized
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Post #3I read the article and the comments after the article. I agree with some of the commenters that the purpose of this is likely not to try and remove dependence on Big Oil, but rather to allow aircraft carriers to use excess nuclear power to create fuel on board for aircraft. If the process actually works, then it probably takes a bunch of electricity to drive it. There's no free lunch. However, there might be a convenient snack of producing on board fuel rather than relying on supply ships. It's probably a lot easier and more cost effective to waste excess nuclear power creating liquid fuel rather than try to convert existing fighter jets to run on batteries.Goat wrote: The Navy has developed a method of making Jet 5 fuel from hydrogn and co2 extracted from sea water. The goal is to let navy vessels to make their own jet fuel without having use refueling ships.
The price range projected is 3 to 6 bucks per gallon
http://www.nrl.navy.mil/media/news-rele ... ea-concept
This could be independence from oil producing countries if commercialized