Comments on: Thule Air Base in the Arctic Circle Gets $3 Million Energy Efficiency Upgrade http://cleantechnica.com/2010/12/10/thune-air-base-in-the-article-circle-gets-3-million-energy-efficiency-upgrade/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 22:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: More than Half of U.S. Energy Goes to Waste – But Not for Long – CleanTechnica: Cleantech innovation news and views http://cleantechnica.com/2010/12/10/thune-air-base-in-the-article-circle-gets-3-million-energy-efficiency-upgrade/#comment-99486 Tue, 17 May 2011 15:10:28 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=19761#comment-99486 […] conventional means are already available. One example is an a new energy harvesting system up at Thule Air Force Base in the Arctic Circle, which captures exhaust heat from the facility’s generators. You can […]

]]> By: Tina Casey http://cleantechnica.com/2010/12/10/thune-air-base-in-the-article-circle-gets-3-million-energy-efficiency-upgrade/#comment-60717 Sun, 12 Dec 2010 05:53:18 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=19761#comment-60717 Hi CB thanks for your comment. To be fair, I think the economics of traditional media work against stories like this. It’s not necessarily the fault of a conventional mindset, it’s just that mainstream news (that is, news that competes for readers in a highly competitive market) is defined by drama, and good news is, well, just another happy story.

]]> By: CB http://cleantechnica.com/2010/12/10/thune-air-base-in-the-article-circle-gets-3-million-energy-efficiency-upgrade/#comment-60706 Sun, 12 Dec 2010 04:39:25 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=19761#comment-60706 Great! We need more examples of this in the mainstream media!

]]> By: Tina Casey http://cleantechnica.com/2010/12/10/thune-air-base-in-the-article-circle-gets-3-million-energy-efficiency-upgrade/#comment-60665 Sun, 12 Dec 2010 01:57:36 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=19761#comment-60665 Hi Tim, thanks for the insider’s view!

]]> By: Tim Smith http://cleantechnica.com/2010/12/10/thune-air-base-in-the-article-circle-gets-3-million-energy-efficiency-upgrade/#comment-60659 Sun, 12 Dec 2010 01:33:18 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=19761#comment-60659 I worked in Antarctica several years ago at McMurdo Station and I was shocked to see just how energy inefficient these large stations (bases) can be. Most of McMurdo’s structures were built by the Navy in the 60s / 70s and no thought was taken to heating or efficiency. A huge number of buildings had basic aluminum siding without any insulation. The temperature in the main housing building was so hot that most people opened their windows so their rooms didn’t hit 85. They did a very large energy efficiency audit and found that a large number of improvements had a payback period of just a few years. There’s a lot of very large projects going on upgrade the efficiency, but it’s really pathetic how little care was taken in the early days of these stations.

]]> By: Tina Casey http://cleantechnica.com/2010/12/10/thune-air-base-in-the-article-circle-gets-3-million-energy-efficiency-upgrade/#comment-60067 Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:24:01 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=19761#comment-60067 Vince, thank you for catching that typo (as several others did). It’s been corrected.

]]> By: Vince Eli http://cleantechnica.com/2010/12/10/thune-air-base-in-the-article-circle-gets-3-million-energy-efficiency-upgrade/#comment-59828 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:27:50 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=19761#comment-59828 “Thule” Air Force Base vice “Thune”

Sincerely

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