{"id":1027,"date":"2009-04-22T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T05:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2009-04-22T05:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T05:42:00","slug":"defense-officials-take-active-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/defense-officials-take-active-interest.html","title":{"rendered":"Defense Officials Take Active Interest in Green Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Pentagon plans to spend $300 million of its $7.4 billion share of the economic stimulus package to accelerate conservation and alternative-energy development, according to The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Alan R. Shaffer, director of defense research and engineering at the Pentagon, acknowledges that $300 million &#8211; although a lot of money &#8211; is a modest sum to invest in alternative energy.<\/p>\n<p>But, Shaffer told The Post, the money will help speed up work already under way. In one project, the Pentagon is developing lightweight photo-voltaic mats that can draw solar power to run equipment. In another, officials are working on mobile mini-refineries that turn waste generated in the field &#8211; recyclables and plain old garbage &#8211; into biodiesel.<\/p>\n<p>Other ventures, such as converting algae into a type of jet fuel and refining hybrid engines for use by military vehicles, also hold promise. Officials say some efforts, such as improving the application of spray-foam insulation for tents in Iraq, have already proven successful, saving millions of dollars in energy costs.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hamptonroads.com\/2009\/04\/green-energy-push-battlefield\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, have you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/feed\/rss.xml\">subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?<\/a>; How about <a href=\"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/mlist\/user\/subscribe.php\">joining the Oilgae mailing list?<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/forum\">our forum to discuss on with others<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. The Pentagon plans to spend $300 million of its $7.4 billion share of the economic stimulus package to accelerate conservation and alternative-energy development, according to The Washington Post. Alan R. Shaffer, director of defense research and engineering at the Pentagon, acknowledges that $300 million &#8211; although a lot of money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-biodiesel","category-algae-energy-investments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}