I suspect if this works out for a nuclear carrier, it will have land based possibilities with scaled down thorium reactors to provide point of processing unlimited power. Say a plant about the size of San Diego's new $1.6B water desalinization plant due to be online next year. Then the eco weirdoes will be crying that the intake vents are sucking up shamu , flipper and that crab from the little mermaid. So the rest of the country has to live in mud huts as penance.
There are 3 different teams of graduate students around the world who are almost finished developing cheap readily available catalysts other than exotic platinum, rhodium, or palladium hybrids for turning tap water into hydrogen in real time. The NAVY having a bigger budget(American taxpayers) can afford the very expensive best while their nuclear power plants provide unlimited energy to power the reaction. That's why for now this will work out for the NAVY but, not us.
The catalyst gets used up in the process. But, the process works. Keeping tabs on the catalyst development will be the telling thing for the future of civilian development.
Think about Ironman and his problems with Palladium as his arc reactor catalyst. He had to keep feeding the reactor. Wonder where the writers got the inspiration for that............
