US Navy can turn sea water into fuel.

[Kiopa_Matt]

Goodbye, Oil: US Navy Cracks New Renewable Energy Technology To Turn Seawater Into Fuel, Allowing Ships To Stay At Sea Longer

After decades of experiments, U.S. Navy scientists believe they may have solved one of the world’s great challenges: how to turn seawater into fuel.

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The new fuel is initially expected to cost around $3 to $6 per gallon, according to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, which has already flown a model aircraft on it.

 

[Andrew Scherer]

inb4 all US Navy scientists are loaded up onto an aircraft and shot down by a gosh darn al qaeda missle

damn terrorists

 

[-God-]

inb4 US Navy ship blows up in spectacular fashion makes headline all over the world and new fuel ruled too dangerous to ever use.

 

[potentialeight]

I don't see why all of you think that there's some big conspiracy to keep alternative fuel sources from coming out before a time strategically-determined by the major fuel companies in the world.
























Almost typed that with a straight face.

 

[jeffrey]

I don't see why all of you think that there's some big conspiracy to keep alternative fuel sources from coming out before a time strategically-determined by the major fuel companies in the world.



Almost typed that with a straight face.

Speak for yourself bro, my congressmen assured me wasn't big business.

 

[groneg]

Run Car On Water

 

[Ben89]

inb4 we run out of water

 

[lcver]

You're missing the part where they need large amounts of electricity to make the fuel, such that's provided by the massive onboard nuclear reactors.

 

[dmnEPC]

You're missing the part where they need large amounts of electricity to make the fuel, such that's provided by the massive onboard nuclear reactors.

so what you're saying is they need some kind of fuel to make fuel? that probably cant be done.

 

[SkyFire]

I'm skeptical.

 

[_poto_]

The main problem isn't the electricity to make this, it's the hydrogen itself. Hydrogen atoms are tiny and they tend to get into everything and have a bad habit of fucking up all your seals. The little bastards are a nightmare to have in engines and complex systems. It might work great in a lab demo that runs for a few hours, but doing the same thing at scale and in a system that will have to run for years or decades is a whole other ballgame.

This article is just a puff piece about a research project that will probably never actually make it into production, at least not for many years down the road.

 

[Mises]

Damn, I was hoping they created a practical version of magnetohydrodynamic drive.

Also, you know damn well that if the government is claiming that it costs between $3-6 per gallon, the private sector can create it for $0.03-0.06 per gallon.

 

[Always]

There have been courses on Clickbank for years explaining how to do this. Looks like the affiliate marketing industry is more advanced than the US Navy. Classic inefficient government.

Energy By Water - Build Your Own "Water Power" System

 

[WildGunner]

been had fuel, been had 'tricity