Jet fuel from sea water!

Jet fuel from sea water!

Recently scientists at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have successfully made fuel from sea water to fly a radio-controlled model airplane. This is really a marvelous discovery.
The NRL has made the fuel from sea water by using their gas-to-liquid technology which involved running sea water through the group's E-CEM (electrolytic cation exchange module) Carbon Capture Skid, removing carbon dioxide from the water at 92 percent efficiency while simultaneously producing hydrogen as part of the process. Then using a metal catalyst in a separate reactor system, the carbon dioxide and hydrogen gases were converted into a liquid hydrocarbon fuel.
The fuel derived from sea water was also tested to power a two-stroke conventional combustion engine and the result was very encouraging. If the process to make fuel from sea water is proved economically sound, then the jet airplanes will no more require to depend on conventional jet fuel but will fly on sea water fuel. And Bangladesh will be greatly benefited because we have enough sea water to convert to fuel!
Professor M Zahidul Haque
Department of Agricultural Extension & Information System, SAU, Dhaka