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yencabulator on Oct 24, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Air Force has a plan to make jet fuel out of a...

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My understanding is the submarines have been doing that for a very, very long time. No challenge there.

Here's a random article from 2008 saying "decades": https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/opinion/nuclear-desalinati...

diggernet on Oct 25, 2021 [–]

All subs and surface ships, literally since the very first nuclear powered vessel. Because all they did was switch to a different heat source for the desalination that ships had been doing for decades before that.

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