Submersible Robot Diesel Recycles Its Exhaust

An Anonymous Coward writes: "This might be a good weekend topic to kick around. Trends in Japan has a short article on an undersea robot that uses a contained diesel. 'The engine itself is a completely closed system that needs no intake of air to run and chemically processes exhaust gas inside the robot. On-board devices reinfuse the exhaust with oxygen after removing its carbon dioxide and reuse the gas in the fuel mixture. The seawater is kept clean, as no gas is released.' Any /.'s working with this tech? Can it be applied to low emission vehicles?"

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Very nice.

[Traxton1]

That sounds very interesting. Is there anyway this could be applied to other types of vehicles? I know turbo's on cars work off of the exhaust in cars, but it's not the same thing.