Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory say this is totally doable

Oct 8, 2012 13:45 GMT  ·  By

By now, most people are well aware of the fact that the US Navy is dead set on greening up its working agenda, not because they care a whole lot about the environment, but because energy independence seems like the right thing to do in this day and age.

Thus, specialists working with the US Naval Research Laboratory are presently busy perfecting a new technology which will supposedly make it possible for them to take seawater and turn it into jet fuel.

The main idea is to extract the carbon dioxide from this rather plentiful natural resource, produce pure hydrogen, and then pair the two together (i.e. the carbon dioxide and the hydrogen) into hydrocarbons which can be used for jet fuel.

Naturally, the science talk behind this project is a tad more complex than we made it sound in the paragraph above.

However, what we wish to emphasize is that - in spite of what others might assume - the ecological footprint of burning this new type of energy source will be roughly the same as that of burning run-off-the-mill jet fuel, simply because they share the same recipe when it comes to mixing and matching hydrocarbons.