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Published: 2014-06-23 23:34:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 13634; Favourites: 369; Downloads: 272
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Another speedie for the SSF group on FB. Some alien spacecraft sucking up seawater.
Topic: Ocean Drinkers
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Sucking, up, sea water... those must some poorly designed radiators OOOR it could be a specially designed engine for space travel using a renewable resource of fuel for those hydrogen engines using electrolysis to break up the hydrogen, oxygen and sea-salt molecules; using the compressed liquid hydrogen as a fuel with oxygen quickly to create a burning reaction. The only major issues are storage tanks both for the sea water, the hydrogen gas and a light weight composite material tank designed to compress hydrogen into a liquid which requires tremendous strength and dangerous pressure levels. Also hydrogen doesn't burn as hot as other liquid or solid fuels and it almost immediately forms into water vapors as an exhaust; the light it produces is also barely visible to the naked eye. Could hydrogen explode? Yes, but the probability is extremely low since hydrogen is lighter than air, the gases will float away almost instantly. The concentration would have to be greater than the amount that it can dissipate into the air and form water molecules.
Believe it or not I did a 52 page project for my senior year graduation essay that lasted an hour and a half in 2008 about hydrogen vehicles for terrestrial, aerial and aquatic machines. I did far more visiting of companies and gathering physical research on experimental projects that were happening throughout the US; I got an A+ with a score of 98% for both knowledge and presentation. I even had two company representatives join me for my presentation to the school board, teachers and staff; it was quite a scene. Too bad I didn't get any job offers though 
SO these aliens could be using advanced hydrogen engines of some sort... that's very cool!
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So, given how big the distances between stars are, you honestly think their engines would work on a burning reactions?
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I don't know, it's concept art.. this isn't even real and I'm not gonna waste time thinking about probabilities or the possibilities of some make believe alien race with technology that is barely understood. Yes, it is possible to turn seawater into fuel but that discovery was recently found and the process for making that fuel is inefficient at the moment. Honestly I don't care, I was simply sharing a thought; that's it.
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I have a friend whose sister claims she saw a car that runs on water (though it isn't the drinkable kind) , that she even saw it being tanked. It was in Norway or some place, her friend worked for a company that had a prototype.
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You do know hydrogen isn't toxic, right?
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I don't know why it isn't drinkable....
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unless it's not pure hydrogen yeah... it could be toxic. It depends where the water source came from, if there are chemicals present within the water it could cause problems for someone or the machine in question. Distilled Water is the best source though.
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I am arriving late to this conversation.....and this is my kind of convo. Yeah the claims that the U.S. Navy can convert seawater into fuel are a bit overstated the further I have read.
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A bit? I think it's outrageous for the fact that they need a nuclear power plant solely for the purpose of powering their system for retrieving the CO2 and Hydrogen gasses and converting them into hydrocarbons for processing into viable fuel. Also to grasp the idea of how much a military jet burns fuel, that's like having 44 cars idling altogether. To be honest using this new discovery wont save the human race, basically we'd be taking the CO2 from the oceans, converting it into fuel and then throwing it back into the ocean and with the continued use of industrial machinery the problem won't go away, it'll only continue to get worse. The solution is to stop using crude oil as a fuel source, the main issue is introducing and teaching people to a new standard like hydrogen or electric vehicles. It's not hard for the younger folks (ages 40 and below) it's the older generations that are struggling to keep up or understand the new changes.
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Or they could be extracting deuterium or boron to fuel fusion reactors
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That was exactly what i thought when i saw this picture, oceans are one of the best sources of fusion fuel.
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