Comments on: Lifesaving Solar Power For Army’s “Firefly” Sniper Detection System http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/19/new-army-solar-power-project-improves-a-sniper-detection-system/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 03:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/19/new-army-solar-power-project-improves-a-sniper-detection-system/#comment-167051 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:16:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=52883#comment-167051 Transporting generator fuel to a forward base has nothing to do with combat?

]]> By: JamesWimberley http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/19/new-army-solar-power-project-improves-a-sniper-detection-system/#comment-167009 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=52883#comment-167009 The big issue here is the fuel convoys. The Pentagon has actually been financing the Taliban through the latters’s protection racket on civilian supply contractors.

The changing-the-batteries risk described is solved by powering the sensor with a simple cable. The solar panels by themselves do nothing to reduce combat risk, it’s just clever PR.

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