Navy creates fuel from seawater
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Wed Apr 16, 2014 8:25 amby The Dharma Bum
http://www.nrl.navy.mil/media/news-rele ... ea-conceptA process to remove hydrogen and carbon from seawater to be used as fuel has been developed by the US Navy.
Game over oligarchy
Re: Navy creates fuel from seawater
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Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:07 amby eynon81
f**k' A.
maybe the MIC has been a net-positive? well...as long as we stay out of Asian land-wars.
Re: Navy creates fuel from seawater
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Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:13 amby Dylan
Gotta watch out for those Asian land wars.
Defense spending is fine and often results in cool shit and jobs. The problem is when we look at our cool shit that doesn't have a civilian application and think "huh, wonder what that does let's blow up some brown people and find out."
Re: Navy creates fuel from seawater
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Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:21 amby John Galt
pretty awesome though. its making jet/rocket fuel though, carbon numbers 9 to 16 hydrocarbons in the molecules are for like kerosene. octane rating isn't called octane rating for nothing. it's fine that it's making jet fuel (which can be used in a diesel engine, with a lubricant additive of like a gallon of oil for every 50 gallons of fuel, although it's also less effective than using diesal and you go less far so the whole use of jet fuel in diesel engines is dumb), but it means your last comment OP is a bit bizarre. piston engines running on gasoline need highly flammable liquids like gasoline to work, not not-very-flammable liquids like kerosene. it does the exact opposite of what you want