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Secretary of the Navy Sets Target for 50% of Total Energy Consumption from Alternative Sources by 2020; Role for Biofuels and EVs

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The Commandant of the Marine Crops, General Conway said it best during the Marine Corps energy summit a few weeks ago when he described the fully burdened cost of a gallon of gasoline delivered to a piece of equipment in Afghanistan. The Navy is already doing this at China Lake, where on-base systems generate 20 times the load of the base.

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US Military going green

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The high Mojave Desert may not be the first place you’d look for signs of an American green revolution. The desert base acts as a house for the Army’s premier training centre for troops that will be deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. per cent of its power from alternative sources and is looking to expand this number.

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Department of Defense releases new operational energy strategy; more fight, less fuel

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aircraft over Afghanistan, 8 Dec 2010. Whether deploying and sustaining forces at the front, or powering mission-critical facilities they depend on in the rear, everything we do, every mission we perform, requires significant amounts of energy. Forty bundles of fuel fall from a USAF Globemaster III. The aircraft is assigned to the.