New York Times report: U.S. Military Orders Less Dependence on Fossil Fuels

“After a decade of waging wars in remote corners of the globe where fuel is not readily available, senior [military] commanders have come to see overdependence on fossil fuel as a big liability, and renewable technologies — which have become more reliable and less expensive over the past few years — as providing a potential answer. These new types of renewable energy now account for only a small percentage of the power used by the armed forces, but military leaders plan to rapidly expand their use over the next decade.

‘There are a lot of profound reasons for doing this, but for us at the core it’s practical,’ said Ray Mabus, the Navy secretary and a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, who has said he wants 50 percent of the power for the Navy and Marines to come from renewable energy sources by 2020.”

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