{"id":142503,"date":"2022-07-19T14:45:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/goodbye-oil-us-navy-cracks-new-renewable-energy-technology-to-turn-seawater-into-fuel-allowing-ships-to-stay-at-sea-longer"},"modified":"2022-07-19T14:45:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:45:36","slug":"goodbye-oil-us-navy-cracks-new-renewable-energy-technology-to-turn-seawater-into-fuel-allowing-ships-to-stay-at-sea-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/goodbye-oil-us-navy-cracks-new-renewable-energy-technology-to-turn-seawater-into-fuel-allowing-ships-to-stay-at-sea-longer","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Oil: US Navy Cracks New Renewable Energy Technology To Turn Seawater Into Fuel, Allowing Ships To Stay At Sea Longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/logo.goodbye-oil-us-navy-cracks-new-renewable-energy-technology-to-turn-seawater-into-fuel-allowing-ships-to-stay-at-sea-longer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2014<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>After decades of experiments, U.S. Navy scientists believe they may have solved one of the world\u2019s great challenges: how to turn seawater into fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The development of a liquid hydrocarbon fuel could one day relieve the military\u2019s dependence on oil-based fuels and is being heralded as a \u201cgame changer\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2014 After decades of experiments, U.S. Navy scientists believe they may have solved one of the world\u2019s great challenges: how to turn seawater into fuel. The development of a liquid hydrocarbon fuel could one day relieve the military\u2019s dependence on oil-based fuels and is being heralded as a \u201cgame changer\u201d because it could allow [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-military","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}