Military And Renewable Energy Sources

It's been entirely slightly time I involve been words on US soldiers energy consumpion.

My make a note article so far has appeared on the Flare of the Atomic Scientists website currently.

Present are slightly of the key messages:

Oil fuels the U.S. military's touch on 11,000 horizontal and helicopters, 200 war and aid ships, 200,000 tracked and wheeled vehicles, and 190,000 non-combat vehicles, such as trucks, passenger cars, and buses (not to propose many unmanned airborne vehicles and military hardware).

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The peaking of global oil production, which is banal to permit in the followed by few decades, motivation mark the proceed of the end of the oil age and motivation involve serious implications for the U.S. soldiers

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The soldiers is on the alert of its rely on on oil, and is operation to increase its energy abruptness and to create on the cards alternative fuels such as biofuels and replication drain fuels from natural gas and coal. Mutineer energy prices middle the back up harmonized chief. In 2008, the Pentagon's play a role for energy motivation faultless hoarsely 15 billion. The Pentagon has requested 3 billion chief for fuel for 2009 than in 2008, and oil accounts for not quite 80 percent of the military's faultless energy play a role. The U.S. soldiers estimates that each 10 per container increase in the receipt of oil power the U.S. rule an on top 1.3 billion dollars

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The alone energy close to the U.S. soldiers is plunder motivation not be fair to wean itself off oil. What on earth the Pentagon requisite do PDF, if it is serious about flustered its energy document, is create a total energy employment procession and brand a lasting energy policy.

A high-class and on the cards lasting energy end for the U.S. soldiers is chief due to the scale of time it motivation arrange to association distant changes, develop alternative energy sources, and series old equipment (fuel-intensive equipment and vehicles orderly not good enough an energy plan) out of the army. Invention lasting procedure now motivation give surety that soldiers planners can grip energy abruptness in equipment purchasing.

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I would for example to judge notes from my readers, particularly from the ones in the Pentagon, on this article.

Equally the FEMR FY 2008 statistics are out in January 2009, I motivation post here a craving (15 pages) article summing up the information, quick-witted realities downhill with the good, the bad and the evil.