Comments on: New Initiatives to Increase Energy Efficiency in the U.S. Military http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/12/us-military-clean-energy-energy-efficiency-initiatives/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 11:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Robert H Sommer http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/12/us-military-clean-energy-energy-efficiency-initiatives/#comment-131115 Mon, 03 Sep 2012 22:09:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36951#comment-131115 Rob, seems that you know what you are talking about and I am interested to know where you are coming from.
I am working on a Wave Energy Converter and only recently became involved in Renewable energies. If you are in the business and/or as gifted as your reply indicates, I think we would do well exchanging ideas.
I am not a political animal, just a technowiennie with a goal to save the world. Your response shows me that you are in tune more than I am.

Only just found this article so you may not get this. If you do see this, please contact me.

BOBSOMM@AOL.COM
Please put Renewable energy in the subject so I don’t accidentally delete.

Peace, Bob

]]> By: Power Generation at Edge of the Battlefield http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/12/us-military-clean-energy-energy-efficiency-initiatives/#comment-125115 Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:48:03 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36951#comment-125115 […] military is a major energy consumer, consuming 932 trillion Btu of energy at a cost of ~$13.3B in 2009 and the demand for power on the […]

]]> By: Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/12/us-military-clean-energy-energy-efficiency-initiatives/#comment-118585 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:06:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36951#comment-118585 Like! :D

]]> By: electric38 http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/12/us-military-clean-energy-energy-efficiency-initiatives/#comment-118256 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:16:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36951#comment-118256 How about we get out of the war business (especially after the murdered Afghan children incident) and put these solar PV units on American rooftops? Then we could get out of the oil price protection business, while building a nationwide electric vehicle battery charging infrastructure.. Quit letting the war profiteers run our politicians.

]]> By: rommel43 http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/12/us-military-clean-energy-energy-efficiency-initiatives/#comment-118169 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:24:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36951#comment-118169 We need to start using the army like the Romans did. They built the entire infrastructure of the empire, well when we bring them all home from all the random places they are stationed they will need something to do

]]> By: RobS http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/12/us-military-clean-energy-energy-efficiency-initiatives/#comment-118148 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:37:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36951#comment-118148 There are a few very alarming facts which are all verified by the pentagon, not conjecture. The first is that fuel convoys are incredibly dangerous and expensive, there have been over 3,000 US military deaths in attacks on fuel convoys in Iraq and Afghanistan. The cost to ship and protect fuel convoys is enormous, once these costs are added the pentagon is paying about $300 per gallon delivered to a frontline unit, as most electricity in frontline bases is generated by the same fuel and most generators produce about 6kwh/gallon they are also paying ~$50 /kwh, there are often disputes about the benefits of various fuel efficiency technologies’ economic benefits when gas is $4/gallon and electricity is 15c/kwh, once you make that $300/gallon and $50/kwh and there are potentially thousands of lives to be saved pretty much every available technology becomes worthwhile, the ideal are any solution where the energy is generated and used on site so that there is no need for fuel convoys.

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