After decades of experiments, U.S. Navy scientists believe they may have solved one of the world’s great challenges: how to turn seawater into fuel. (…) The new fuel is initially expected to cost around $3 to $6 per gallon, according to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, which has already flown a model aircraft on it.
(...) Using an innovative and proprietary NRL electrolytic cation exchange module (E-CEM), both dissolved and bound CO2 are removed from seawater at 92 percent efficiency by re-equilibrating carbonate and bicarbonate to CO2 and simultaneously producing H2. The gases are then converted to liquid hydrocarbons by a metal catalyst in a reactor system.
Ça n'a pas toutes les apparences d'une technologie pour l'avenir, ça? C'est pas câlissement plus prometteur qu'un esti de pipeline pour les sables bitumineux, ça?
Pourquoi cette nouvelle ne fait pas la une de tous les journaux du monde???
