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You won't put this equipment on air craft carriers. If at all nuclear support ships might be able to run this however the econics seems reall dubious at this point.



I guarantee the Navy (any navy with a nuclear aircraft carrier) is interested in this idea. A significant problem for the Navy is the logistics of all the fuel needed for those aircraft, if they can produce that fuel at sea it saves them a lot of headache. Depending how much/fast it can produce it may even take less space than all the tanks they have, and they never worry about running out of fuel in a war.

There are a lot of open questions as to if this can ever actually work on an air , but it need not be economical to the better answer. Navys will pay extra if it works and means they don't have to ship fuel around. Even better if it can produce enough fuel to also refuel at sea all the other ships the navy has in a carrier battle group.




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