Dr. Jeffrey Baldwin, Dr. Dennis Hardy, Dr. Heather Willauer and Dr. David Drab, NRL (IMAGE)

Naval Research Laboratory

Dr. Jeffrey Baldwin, Dr. Dennis Hardy, Dr. Heather Willauer and Dr. David Drab, NRL

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Flying a radio-controlled replica of the historic WWII P-51 Mustang red-tail aircraft -- of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen -- NRL researchers (l to r) Dr. Jeffrey Baldwin, Dr. Dennis Hardy, Dr. Heather Willauer, and Dr. David Drab (crouched), successfully demonstrate a novel liquid hydrocarbon fuel to power the aircraft's unmodified two-stroke internal combustion engine. The test provides proof-of-concept for an NRL developed process to extract carbon dioxide (CO2) and produce hydrogen gas (H2) from seawater, subsequently catalytically converting the CO2 and H2 into fuel by a gas-to-liquids process.

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