and carbon dioxide are passed into a heated reaction chamber with an iron catalyst. The gases combine and form long-chained unsaturated hydrocarbons with methane as a by-product. The unsaturated hydrocarbons are then made to form longer hydrocarbon molecules containing six to nine carbon atoms. Using a nickel-supported catalyst, these are then converted into jet fuel.They hope the fuel will not only be able to power ships, but also planes.The predicted cost of jet fuel using the technology is in the range of three to six dollars per gallon, say experts at the US Naval Research Laboratory, who have already flown a model airplane with fuel produced from seawater.Dr Heather Willauer, an research chemist who has spent nearly a decade on the project, said:'For the first time we've been able to develop a technology to get CO2 and hydrogen from seawater simultaneously,Max 2014 Women Blue Rose Red, that's a big breakthrough,' she said, adding that the fuel 'doesn't look or smell very different.'Now that they have demonstrated it can work, the next step is to produce it in industrial quantities.But before that, in partnership with several universities, the experts want to improve the amount of CO2 and hydrogen they can capture. Dr. Heather Willauer explains how scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC can make fuel from seawater 'We've demonstrated the feasibility, we want to improve the process efficiency,' explained Willauer.Collum is just as excited.'For us in the military, in the Navy, we have some pretty unusual and different kinds of challenges,Nike Air Max 95 Black White Grey Blue,' he said.'We don't necessarily go to a gas station to get our fuel, our gas station comes to us in terms of an oiler, a replenishment ship.'Developing a game-changing technology like this, seawater to fuel, really is something that reinvents a lot of the way we can do business when you think about logistics, readiness.'A crucial benefit, says Collum, is that the fuel can be used in the same engines already fitted in ships and aircraft.'If you don't want to re-engineer every ship, every type of engine, every aircraft, that's why we need what we call drop-in replacement fuels that look, smell and essentially are the same as any kind of petroleum-based fuels.'Drawbacks? Only one, it seems: researchers warn it will be at least a decade before US ships are able to produce their own fuel on board. 2599036
LAS VEGAS (AP) �� An ex-convict who renounced his adherence to a sovereign citizen philosophy was sentenced Monday to five years' probation for plotting to kidnap police officers to call attention to his anti-government views.David Allen Brutsche,UK Nike Air Max 2011 Black Grey Red, 43, spent nearly 20 minutes apologizing to Clark County District Judge Elissa Cadish and pledging to cooperate with probation officers after he's released from jail next month.I want to get out and live like everyone else, Brutsche said. I don't want trouble. It's too much problem to go this route. FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2013,Nike Air Max 2014 Red Black, file photo, David Allen Brutsche, right, appears in Las Vegas Justice Court at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas. Brutsche, who renounced his adherence to a sovereign citizen philosophy was sentenced in Las Vegas to five years? probation after pleading guilty to a felony charge of conspiring to kidnap police officers.(AP Photo/Las Vegas Sun, Leila Navidi, File) LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL OUTThe judge ordered Brutsche not to associate with any known followers of the anti-government movement and to find a job other than selling water on the Las Vegas Strip. She said that if Brutsche violates terms of his probation, he faces a prison term of up to six years. He pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy to kidnap police officers in February.Brutsche, a convicted sex offender from California, came to the attention of authorities in Las Vegas during arrests for driving violations and misdemeanor offenses like selling and giving away bottled water on the Strip without a business license.In early court appearances, he espoused the extremist anti-authority theory that people can declare themselves sovereign and outside the bounds of federal and local legal constraints.He said Monday that spending more than seven months in isolation in a Las Vegas jail changed his mind.I've had a lot of time sitting in jail to think, he said. Things have changed.When Brutsche and a woman, Devon Campbell Newman,UK Nike Air Max 2011 Men Black Red, were arrested Aug. 20, police described them as domestic terrorists intent on kidnapping, torturing and killing random police officers and posting video of the acts on the Internet.The aim, police said, was to attract attention to the anti-authority ideals.But prosecutors in September dropped the two most serious charges �� conspiracy to commit murder and attempted kidnapping with a weapon. He said Monday that he willingly took a plea deal that had him plead