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Tuco's Child's avatar

I like the concept-

I am open to something that works with reaonable thremodynamic efficiency and things add up reasonably.

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Andrew Mcdonald's avatar

The navy has a program which converts seawater to JP5. They’ve developed a catalyst for making CO from the CO2 in seawater. Dr Willauer in a YouTube video that H2 is the bottleneck in synfuel.

This from 2010:

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA539765.pdf

Don’t know much about the CuCl process, so I’m interested to learn more. I’ve looked into the SI process initially developed by General Atomics and currently being optimized by the Japanese in their HTGR program.

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