Renewables in the military

Filed under: government on May 1st, 2008 2:09
tagged: army, military
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Earth First picked up on an article in the Times Online that discusses the efforts of the British Army to make better use of renewable energy sources. Absolutely fascinating juxtaposition of environmentalism and war.

From the Times Online article:

Possible innovations include unmanned attack aircraft powered by the sun. They would fire missiles fuelled with hydrogen produced by feeding algae to microbes.

Tanks could be electrically powered or run on fuel produced from oil squeezed out of weeds so hardy they can grow in the desert.

Ships could run completely on electricity produced from generators powered by synthetic fuels made from grass.

The environmental requirements of the army, navy and air force will be presented this week to specially vetted defence and research companies.

I guess Earth 2.0 will still include war and other 1.0 stuff.