Due to climate change and oil shortage, the US Navy is experimenting with making jet fuel from seawater by the process making kerosene-based jet fuel from unsaturated short-chain hydrocarbons in seawater. Extraction of carbon dioxide in the water and combining it with hydrogen - a variant of the chemical reaction called 'Fischer-Tropsch process'. The goal is to produce as little unwanted methane through this process, the main concern. Other issues include the need to use a carbon-neutral energy source and process consumes more energy than the fuel it produces.
Reference: slashdot.org
No comments:
Post a Comment