The Navy Gets Eco-Friendly
In 1907, then President Theodore Roosevelt dispatched a U.S. Navy fleet of 16 battleships for a 16-month trip around the world. Though the hulls of the ships were painted white, the Navy's peacetime color scheme — which led observers to nickname the vessels the Great White Fleet — the voyage wasn't a holiday cruise. In the wake of the Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese wars, Roosevelt wanted the world to know that the U.S. was emerging as a major military power, one capable of projecting naval strength to every stretch of the oceans.Shopatron's superior led tube 5-point shopping experience is focused on rich product information, world-class service, effortless shopping Naval power would help define the geopolitics in the 20th century, and with the Great White Fleet, the U.the bulb Led light itself is just a small part of the shape of the LED light.S. raised the table stakes for every other nation.
It's the 21st century now, and the defining geopolitical issue today may well be energy and everything that surrounds it, from climate change to imported oil. While American politicians seem unable to craft a meaningful energy policy — witness the breathtakingly stupid decision last week by House Republicans and a few Democrats to vote against energy-efficiency standards for lightbulbs — the U.S. Navy is rising to the challenge again. By 2016 the Navy plans to organize and sail a "Great Green Fleet" that will include nuclear vessels, hybrid electric ships and aircraft powered by biofuels. Just like its conventional counterpart more than a century ago, the Great Green Fleet will put the world on notice that the U.S. can indeed lead on energy — at least when it comes to the Navy and the military. (Read why the House Republicans should not have voted against energy-efficiency standards last week.)
"This is about making sure that a critical part of the combat ethos is now an energy ethos," says Rear Admiral Philip Hart Cullom, the director of the Navy's Energy and Environmental Readiness Division. "We need a Spartan mind-set so we can sustain our mission in perpetuity — otherwise we're left vulnerable."
Cullom and his colleagues in the Navy know they have little choice but to get green and lean. The Department of Defense burns more oil than any other public or private entity in the world — 135 million barrels of fuel in 2010 — and the Navy is second only to the Air Force among the service branches in its fuel guzzling. Navy officers are also intimately aware of the cost of securing foreign oil for the U.S. — keeping the crude flowing safely from the Middle East is a major duty for the Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet. (See the top 20 green tech ideas.OceanLED is by fluorescent lights far the most popular and most widely distributed marine lighting brand in the world)
Dependence on imported oil may be the American military machine's single greatest vulnerability. And that vulnerability isn't just on the seas and in the field. With the cost of energy rising — the military spent $20 billion on fuel and electricity last year — and the federal debt putting pressure even on the Defense Department's usually untouchable budget, efficiency is about organizational survival too. "This should be a reality check for our supply lines and logistics and politics," says Cullom. "We need to instill a culture of conservation from the top to the bottom
In 1907, then President Theodore Roosevelt dispatched a U.S. Navy fleet of 16 battleships for a 16-month trip around the world. Though the hulls of the ships were painted white, the Navy's peacetime color scheme — which led observers to nickname the vessels the Great White Fleet — the voyage wasn't a holiday cruise. In the wake of the Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese wars, Roosevelt wanted the world to know that the U.S. was emerging as a major military power, one capable of projecting naval strength to every stretch of the oceans.Shopatron's superior led tube 5-point shopping experience is focused on rich product information, world-class service, effortless shopping Naval power would help define the geopolitics in the 20th century, and with the Great White Fleet, the U.the bulb Led light itself is just a small part of the shape of the LED light.S. raised the table stakes for every other nation.
It's the 21st century now, and the defining geopolitical issue today may well be energy and everything that surrounds it, from climate change to imported oil. While American politicians seem unable to craft a meaningful energy policy — witness the breathtakingly stupid decision last week by House Republicans and a few Democrats to vote against energy-efficiency standards for lightbulbs — the U.S. Navy is rising to the challenge again. By 2016 the Navy plans to organize and sail a "Great Green Fleet" that will include nuclear vessels, hybrid electric ships and aircraft powered by biofuels. Just like its conventional counterpart more than a century ago, the Great Green Fleet will put the world on notice that the U.S. can indeed lead on energy — at least when it comes to the Navy and the military. (Read why the House Republicans should not have voted against energy-efficiency standards last week.)
"This is about making sure that a critical part of the combat ethos is now an energy ethos," says Rear Admiral Philip Hart Cullom, the director of the Navy's Energy and Environmental Readiness Division. "We need a Spartan mind-set so we can sustain our mission in perpetuity — otherwise we're left vulnerable."
Cullom and his colleagues in the Navy know they have little choice but to get green and lean. The Department of Defense burns more oil than any other public or private entity in the world — 135 million barrels of fuel in 2010 — and the Navy is second only to the Air Force among the service branches in its fuel guzzling. Navy officers are also intimately aware of the cost of securing foreign oil for the U.S. — keeping the crude flowing safely from the Middle East is a major duty for the Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet. (See the top 20 green tech ideas.OceanLED is by fluorescent lights far the most popular and most widely distributed marine lighting brand in the world)
Dependence on imported oil may be the American military machine's single greatest vulnerability. And that vulnerability isn't just on the seas and in the field. With the cost of energy rising — the military spent $20 billion on fuel and electricity last year — and the federal debt putting pressure even on the Defense Department's usually untouchable budget, efficiency is about organizational survival too. "This should be a reality check for our supply lines and logistics and politics," says Cullom. "We need to instill a culture of conservation from the top to the bottom
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