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Laws In Southeast Make It Hard For Military To Go Solar (Part 2 of 2)

January 31st, 2015 | by David Pomerantz

Part I of this two-part series asked the question of whether the military should be getting credit for a new solar project [&hellip

Is The Military Getting Undue Credit For Solar Power In North Carolina? (Part 1 of 2)

January 30th, 2015 | by David Pomerantz

UPDATE: Duke Energy spokesperson Randy Wheeless tweeted that Duke Energy is in fact keeping the renewable energy credits from the [&hellip

Google Engages Facebook With Nonstop Solar Drones

April 17th, 2014 | by Sandy Dechert

Originally published on Planetsave. Drones are no longer known as mere weapons of war. At least, that’s how Google, Facebook, [&hellip

Safe Drinking Water When & Where It’s Needed Most

April 15th, 2014 | by David L Roberts

Water purification plants around the globe typically are built near a power plant and population centers because of high energy [&hellip

U.S. Military Adding Solar Roofs to More Base Housing

July 17th, 2012 | by Chelsea

Great news on solar power: More eco-friendly military housing is on the horizon. Today, SolarCity announced that three more [&hellip

Congress Still Hates Biofuel (For the Military)

June 20th, 2012 | by Charis Michelsen

The U.S. military is – perhaps unsurprisingly – one of the driving forces behind alternative fuel sources; after all, not being dependent on potentially hostile foreign countries for vital fuel is a matter of national security. However, in the short term, said alternative fuels are more expensive than standard fossil fuels, and that creates a few problems.

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US Military and a Critical Energy Alternative

March 19th, 2012 | by Breath on the Wind

The US military is a consumer with different priorities. They make their own assessments and have determined as far back as 2010 that there is likely to be shortages of fuel by 2015. If by one war or embargo or a well placed weather event, supplies of oil are interrupted their tanks, ships, aircraft and supplies will have limited mobility

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Advanced Energy Economy (AEE) & American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) Team Up to Increase Renewable Energy

January 30th, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan

The Advanced Energy Economy (AEE) and American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) have announced “a partnership to explore how renewable energy can help the [&hellip

Clean Power

Military Could Produce 7 GW of Solar, Study Finds

January 17th, 2012 | by Susan Kraemer

Seven military bases in California and two in Nevada could produce a hefty 7 GW of power from renewable solar and wind power, according to an extensive study the military commissioned from ICF International. The study found that even though 96% of the surface area of the nine bases is unsuited for solar development because of military use, endangered species and other factors, the solar-compatible area is nevertheless large enough to generate more than 30 times the electricity actually used by the California bases, according to E&E News. Like all federal agencies, the Department of Defense is under an administration mandate to produce clean energy to cut its carbon emissions 28% by 2020, and it has a $4 billion annual energy bill

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Solyndra Loan an Ant Hill Compared to Mountain of ‘Military Boondoggles’

September 20th, 2011 | by Stephen Lacey

Nobody likes to see $500 million in taxpayer funds lost. But as Congress investigates the loan guarantee given to the now-bankrupt solar manufacturer Solyndra, it’s important to put the failed loan into historical context

Concentrating Solar Power

Go-Anywhere Solar Power Fits in Standard Shipping Containers

February 19th, 2011 | by Tina Casey

The same concentrating solar power systems used for massive utility-scale solar arrays can now be installed practically anywhere – or [&hellip

Clean Power

Cleantech News Link Drop

January 17th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan

I decided to leave last week’s roundup of cleantech (or related) news that we didn’t already cover on Cleantechnica to [&hellip

Fossil Fuels

U.S. Military to Get Off Oil by 2040?

October 11th, 2010 | by Zachary Shahan

I’ve been writing about Peak Oil a bit lately, a lot more than I used to. It seems that it’s [&hellip

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Energy Security: Navy Encourages Biofuels Production

April 8th, 2010 | by Derek Markham

On Tuesday, Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan and Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations and Environment Jackalyne Pfannenstiel [&hellip

Solar Energy

Army Going Solar With 500 MW of Solar Power in Mojave Desert

August 1st, 2009 | by Ariel Schwartz

The Army knows that extensive alternative energy installations are the best way to ensure continuous, reliable electricity production. That’s why [&hellip

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Cobra Gold Military Exercise Puts DARPA Portable Fuel Cells to the Test

April 28th, 2009 | by Tina Casey

The next generation of portable fuel cells is being, almost literally, battle-tested by the U.S. military, which put a portable [&hellip

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DARPA Passes Key Programmable Matter Milestone

April 22nd, 2009 | by Tina Casey

Beam me up, Scotty: programmable matter is one step closer to reality. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has [&hellip

Consumer Technology

U.S. Military Goes Big for Bioplastics

April 14th, 2009 | by Tina Casey

An army travels on its stomach, and the U.S. military is no exception. The impact is evident in the packaging, [&hellip

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Military Spending Goes Up, Carbon Bootprint Goes Down

April 10th, 2009 | by Tina Casey

You wouldn’t know it by this week’s headlines, but the truth is that President Obama’s proposed military budget actually increases [&hellip

Agriculture

SAIC Gets Military Contract to Produce Jet Fuel from Algae

January 27th, 2009 | by Dave Tyler

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has given San Diego-based Science Applications International Corporation a contract to develop an [&hellip