Navy to Make Jet Fuel From Seawater

Déjà vu?

Back in 1967 I took a series of chemical equations to convert animal fat to gasoline to my undergraduate Organic Chemistry teacher and asked him if there was any reason this would not work. He said the chemistry was right on the money, and I got extra credit tor the outside work. Then he asked me to run a cost analysis on the reactions and estimate the cost of making the gasoline and compare it with the 35 cents per gallon we were paying then. When Gasoline gets to $7.50 per gallon I may be able to break even if other prices haven't gone up too much. There are cheaper solutions than what the Navy is doing here. But the key may be in making cellulose ethanol based jet fuel from Marine Algae in an on-board distillery.