FPI / August 8, 2021
Geostrategy-Direct.com
By Richard Fisher
What if the U.S. military could produce the variety of fuels needed for ships, aircraft and rockets from seawater, allowing naval bases or offshore rocket transport bases to supply their own fuels for operations, independent from tanker ships and their land-based petroleum sources?
What if the U.S. military could produce the variety of fuels needed for ships, aircraft and rockets from seawater, allowing naval bases or offshore rocket transport bases to supply their own fuels for operations, independent from tanker ships and their land-based petroleum sources?
The United States Navy’s “boffins” at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are working on such a transformative technology as explained at the U.S. Navy League’s 2021 Sea-Air-Space maritime convention.
Since 2009 NRL has developed “a new class of modular carbon capture and gas-to-liquid (GTL) processes to produce operational fuel” according to a NRL brochure. It explains that CO2in seawater 140 greater than air and an “electrolytic cation exchange module (E-CEM) can remove CO2 and Hydrogen to make a range of fuels.
An NRL official told Geostrategy-Direct that it is possible to produce fuels at a price of $2 to $8 a gallon and that it is also possible to scale production capacities up to 200,000 to 300,000 gallons of fuel a day.
This translates to about 7,100 barrels of fuel a day. Perhaps not enough to run a country or cities, but it has the potential of making U.S. naval bases self-sufficient in the production of fuel for peacetime and wartime operations.
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