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If we forget about where the power is coming from for the moment, wasn't the US Navy experimenting with fuel synthesis? Did that go anywhere? A nuclear powered

If we forget about where the power is coming from for the moment, wasn't the US Navy experimenting with fuel synthesis? Did that go anywhere? A nuclear powered carrier has no use for fuel itself, it only stores fuel for aircraft operations. Having the ability to make fuel on site with all the excess cheap electricity seems to be a game changer. Wondering what happened to it. That is the latest I can find: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/us-navy-aircraft-carriers-could-soon-use-innovative-fuel-made-from-seawater-161519.html https://www.autoevolution.com/news/us-navy-aircraft-carriers... 300k grant? That's peanuts for something that has incredible potential. Obviously, I'm looking at future civilian applications for the tech.

martyvis 4y ago
Porsche are on to it. https://newsroom.porsche.com/en_AU/2022/sustainability/porsche-invests-development-industrial-efuel-production-chile-usa-australia-27945.html https://newsroom.porsche.com/en_AU/2022/sustainability/porsc...
user-one1 4y ago
You should check out Prometheus Fuels: https://prometheusfuels.com/ https://prometheusfuels.com/
beambot 4y ago
A project related to the Navy project was "Project Foghorn" at GoogleX: https://x.company/projects/foghorn/ https://x.company/projects/foghorn/ A better technology is currently being scaled up at Prometheus Fuels: https://www.science.org/content/article/former-playwright-aims-turn-solar-and-wind-power-gasoline https://www.science.org/content/article/former-playwright-ai...