US Navy Tries To Turn Seawater Into Jet Fuel

"... extracting carbon dioxide dissolved in the water ..."

Wouldn't it be easier to use the CO₂ from a (coal, oil or gas) power plant?

I think they are trying to make the carrier more selfsufficent......never saw a US Naval Aircraft carrier on land before.

May've missed it, but I didn't see any references to carriers (or the South Pacific, PWSlack) - only thing I saw mentioning location was that the research is being done by "a Naval Research Laboratory chemist in Washington DC".

oh, oh, assumptions being........navy and jet fuel.

Whats to stop the navy refining jet fuel on land?

nothing at all .......... but look at post #3

But if you read the original blog a carrier is not mentioned.

refer to post #4 and #6, while your at it log in.

Hey! Drop it! You're just making assumptions, and don't want to admit you might be wrong.

Its you again, Hello Ben Franklin, read post #5

You missed the "mock-up" carrier where the Doolittle fliers trained for the Tokyo raid. Sixteen B25B Mitchell bombers trained on land to verify that they could take off, fully loaded, from the deck of the USS Hornet.

I didn't miss it, but I was just looking at the reasoning.

The point was, keeping the carriers at sea for longer periods of time. With fewer supply ship transfers. And that was my assumption.

A bit of conjecture:

There is probably a Nuclear reactor involved to make heat & electricity. No need for efficiency, just kerosene... No need to go ashore for much of anything except food & munitions.

I suppose tomorrow's story will involve soylent green or flight deck green houses

The armed forces[Navy in this case] would like to be as self sufficient as possible. of course they can refine fuel on land, but the nearest friendly land might be 1000's of miles away. All the US armed forces are are standardizing diesel as the preferred transportation fuel.

but the nearest friendly land might be 1000's of miles away.

friendly maybe, but not welcome

There is some similar research being done elsewhere. Maybe all the parties could get their heads together?

I repeat

Seriously the us navy isn't bragging about efficiency

When you're 3000 miles from the gas station & the needle's on "E" efficiency is an after thought...

But then, if they'd been more efficient then the needle wouldn't be on empty!

Chas