[first posted to http://idr.janes.com - 19 March 2012]
"For every 24 fuel convoys a US soldier dies," said Dave Muchow, president of SkyBuilt systems, which has been providing rapidly deployable renewable energy power options to the US Army and Navy. That stark figure is feeding a push to exploit other energy sources at the tactical level. When Sharon Burke, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy Plans, spoke from the Pentagon in June 2011 about the release of the US Department of Defense (DoD) Operational Energy Strategy, her emphasis had nothing to do with climate change or saving the environment
"For every 24 fuel convoys a US soldier dies," said Dave Muchow, president of SkyBuilt systems, which has been providing rapidly deployable renewable energy power options to the US Army and Navy. That stark figure is feeding a push to exploit other energy sources at the tactical level. When Sharon Burke, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy Plans, spoke from the Pentagon in June 2011 about the release of the US Department of Defense (DoD) Operational Energy Strategy, her emphasis had nothing to do with climate change or saving the environment
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