US Navy Develops Renewable Energy Turning Seawater Into Fuel

The Navy's development of a liquid hydrocarbon fuel could one day relieve the dependence on oil-based fuels and is being heralded as a “game changer” for ships and shipping.

After decades of experiments, it appears U.S. Navy scientists may have finally solved one of the world’s biggest challenges ... how to turn seawater into fuel. The development of a liquid hydrocarbon fuel is being heralded as a “game changer” because it could allow military ships to develop their own fuel and stay operational 100 percent of the time, rather than having to refuel at sea. One can only speculate how this could change the global shipping industry as well.



"It's a huge milestone for us," said Vice Adm. Philip Cullom. "We are in very challenging times where we really do have to think in pretty innovative ways to look at how we create energy, how we value energy and how we consume it. We need to challenge the results of the assumptions that are the result of the last six decades of constant access to cheap, unlimited amounts of fuel." 




”For the first time we've been able to develop a technology to get CO2 and hydrogen from seawater simultaneously. That's a big breakthrough," said Dr. Heather Willauer, a research chemist who has spent nearly a decade on the project, adding that the fuel "doesn't look or smell very different." 


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