Comments on: U.S. Armed Forces Creating Clean Energy Innovations

By: Adam Hurwitz

Adam Hurwitz — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 18:42:00 +0000

Our military’s adoption of sustainable solution may have a bigger role in our nation’s movement to catch up with the rest of the world. Since policymakers are blind and stubborn to investing in sustainable solutions research and innovations that come out of our military to make them a stronger, more agile self-reliant fighting force will be the basis for larger scale commercial and personal adoption.

Despite the cuts in our military budget, in comparison to funding in science and technology, the military is funded exponentially more. There are plenty more resources for our military to build and test these new technologies than many private firms and educational institutions have.

By: Adam Hurwitz

Adam Hurwitz — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 18:32:00 +0000

If the army took advantage of sustainable solutions, as Sergeant Major said in “Hot, Flat, and Crowded,”

“it would eliminate putting soldiers on the road, and that is the most dangerous thing we do. Keeping people off the roads is the most important thing we can do . . .”

In Iraq and Afganistan oil needs to be transported from base to base in order to support generators and transportation. Besides costing the exorbitant amount of money, the transportation of highly explosive materials puts the soldiers into dangerous situations that can easily be eliminated in the future.

By: MaeYodrin

MaeYodrin — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:27:00 +0000

I understand that we need to be more self sufficient so that we are not spending oil money over seas and putting our national security in the hands of potentially hostile countries.

However, i also see the military’s effort to become self sufficient as combating its second largest persistent enemy – a civilian congress that is often more concerned with bean counting then with reality on the ground, making promises for funding and then 4 months later demanding cuts.

The military needs stability – in both its energy, and its funding. Money it does not need to spend on fuel, power, etc, is money it does not have to beg for hat in hand.