In its ever-expanding quest for new energy-efficient devices, the Army Research Laboratory has been applying the thermoelectric effect to an M1 Abrams tank, and the project could ripple out into every nook and cranny of the civilian sector. Thermoelectricity basically taps the difference between hot and cold temperatures to … [continued]
The Department of Defense has been steadily picking up the pace of its clean energy initiatives, and that includes the Army Reserve. This week, CleanTechnica had an opportunity to speak with Mr. Tad Davis, the person in charge of a $1.2 billion-per-year office that oversees sustainability programs for the … [continued]
The U.S. Army’s Garrison Grafenwoehr in Germany began winning environmental awards when President Bush was still in office, and now it bills itself as the leader in an ambitious new sustainability program launched under President Obama called the Army Net Zero initiative. As a military installation that also lays claim to the title … [continued]
More than 600 people attended the pre-proposal conference for the $7 billion Renewable and Alternative Energy Power Production for DoD Installations Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) hosted by the U.S. Army and Corps of Engineers (USACE) on August 22. The Corps of Engineers, through its Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, issued … [continued]
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is unveiling a new energy policy blueprint for America today, but all you need to know is already right there at the top of the “Energy” page on his campaign website. You don’t even have to read anything, because it’s a logo. I’ll wait while you check the link. Got it? … [continued]
A dustup over the U.S. Navy’s biofuel program hogged the media spotlight this spring, but under the radar, the Army has been pursuing an ambitious alternative energy program of its own. Aside from $7 billion in cutting-edge and utility-scale projects, the Army’s initiatives include a modest but critical experiment … [continued]
When the Department of Defense privatized military housing back in the 1990’s, little did it know that those homes would become the platform for the largest residential solar project in American history. Well, they did. Last November, the solar installer SolarCity announced that it would build about $1 billion in … [continued]
The Navy’s biofuel program has been getting a lot of attention lately, along with biofuel initiatives by the Army and Air Force, and now it’s time for the U.S. Coast Guard to take a turn in the spotlight. The Coast Guard cutter Henry Blake has just taken its maiden voyage … [continued]
Renewable energy options are very important these days for the United States Army, especially when it concerns soldiers stationed in remote combat outposts. Soldiers face a barrage of challenges when it comes to having available energy — a necessity for everything from powering radios, laptops, and GPS units to turning on a light switch. […]
According to a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, airports could become a significant source of biomass for biofuels. The key takeaway from the report, Airports Offer Unrealized Potential for Alternative Energy Production, is that the typical airport environment is already managed to include wide swaths of … [continued]
