Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2010

Logistics train in Afghanistan. Phase One of the experiment simulated the energy and water demands of a Marine unit at forward operating bases similar to those in Afghanistan. Conway has been the catalyst for the Corps’ current work in energy conservation. Source: USMC. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

aircraft over Afghanistan, 8 Dec 2010. At least 80% of land convoys in Afghanistan are for transporting fuel to warfighters, Lynn said. From FY 2003 to FY 2007 in Iraq and Afghanistan, a total of more than 3,000 Army personnel and contractors were wounded or killed in action from attacks on fuel and water resupply convoys.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 8, 2011

But not all of them have served three tours of military duty, including service in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tim Goodrich was posted to Afghanistan as an avionics technician, supporting the AWACS planes that feed aerial.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2013

The Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell Tactical Electrical Power Unit is aimed at reducing the need to transport fuel around the battlefield, especially in theaters such as Afghanistan, where enemies routinely target supply routes with homemade bombs.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 6, 2010

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Dozens of tankers carrying fuel to Afghanistan for NATO troops were torched near Quetta in western Pakistan on Wednesday, the third major attack on supplies since Pakistan closed one border crossing to Afghanistan a week ago and the first at the only checkpoint that remained open. Source: NY Times

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2012

Afghanistan). The bill authorizes $498.0 million more than the President’s request for the base budget of DOD and $301.0 million less than was requested for OCO ( overseas contingency operations, which funds the war in. The bill authorizes $431.0 million less than the requested level of funding for national security programs of the DOE.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

That same year we started deploying the first of thousands of robots in Afghanistan and then Iraq to be used to help troops disable improvised explosive devices. Our worst failure scenarios had the Roomba missing a patch of floor and failing to pick up a dustball.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states and is bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the northeast and east, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest, and the Caspian Sea to the west. Clausen, Chief Executive Officer and President at Haldor Topsøe A/S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2018

For example, poverty-stricken countries facing a higher diabetes-pollution risk include Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea and Guyana, while richer countries such as France, Finland and Iceland experience a lower risk. The US experiences a moderate risk of pollution-related diabetes.

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Cars That Think

MAY 17, 2023

military took hold of the concept, and in its hands, those simple drones morphed into Predators and Reapers , bomber-size machines that flew missions in Iraq and Afghanistan and each cost millions of dollars (if not tens of millions). But a technologically powerful country needn’t count the cost; the United States certainly didn’t. “We

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The Commandant of the Marine Crops, General Conway said it best during the Marine Corps energy summit a few weeks ago when he described the fully burdened cost of a gallon of gasoline delivered to a piece of equipment in Afghanistan.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 3, 2011

military still hasn't found a way to staunch the flow of what is likely hundreds of millions -- if not billions -- of dollars in lost fuel in Afghanistan, some of which is sold on the black market and winds up in Taliban hands, a TPM investigation has found. After nearly a decade of mismanagement, theft and fraud, the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Representatives from publications from Afghanistan to the USA gathered in Copenhagen October 9-11 for Project Syndicate’s “Kyoto to Copenhagen”, a three-day conference featuring discussions and interviews with figures such as Lord Nicholas Stern, Jeffery Sachs and Joseph Stiglitz. Lord Stern.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2012

The report will assess the effectiveness of rapid fielding of fuel demand management improvements by the Military Departments, including energy efficiency and alternative generation technologies, to Afghanistan and other locations in support of contingency operations. The chairman has designated the Director for Logistics, Lt. Brooks Bash.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

As the price per barrel goes beyond $97, one story in the NY Times reports : •Bombing in Afghanistan kills 64. Attack on pipeline in Yemen. Domestic oil inventory to fall. Severe weather forecast for North Sea. Oil platforms evacuated. Dollar weak. Severe weather shuts Mexican ports, disrupts oil supply to US.

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

While we honor today the service, sacrifice and loss of all our military members, there was no threat to our homeland, our freedom or our democracy from the North Koreans, the North Vietnamese, the Cambodians, the Iraqis, or the Afghanistan people.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 29, 2022

As part of its War on Drugs, the CIA used Landsat imagery to reveal an increase of acreage committed to poppy in Afghanistan in 1985 and the resulting expanded opium trade. SSPL/Getty Images Government contracts ended up saving the Landsat program, and perhaps unsurprisingly, they came from the intelligence and military sectors.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2012

Today, 185 countries have stopped using leaded gasoline; six others, including Afghanistan, Iraq and North Korea, plan to phase it out in the next two years. But while leaded gasoline usage has decreased drastically in the last few decades, lead is still pervasive in the environment.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 26, 2009

The desert base acts as a house for the Army’s premier training centre for troops that will be deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars are consuming more fuel than any other wars in US history and so it’s understandable that officials are now reducing their consumption and embracing energy alternatives.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 21, 2022

soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. This recent investment is not, however, a result of a disproportionately large number of amputations in military conflict: Around 1,500 U.S. Limb loss in the general population dwarfs those figures.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2009

Fuel becomes very expensive by the time it reaches the front line, ranging from $20/gallon up to $600/gallon when it is delivered by helicopter in Afghanistan. If the US could reduce its fuel consumption by 1%, it would save more than 6,000 soldier-trips/year.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

When the most recent phase of the Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance program began in 2009, Stump says, "we'd already had many years of being in Iraq and Afghanistan, where robots were often used as tools. We've been trying to figure out what we can do to transition robots from tools to acting more as teammates within the squad.".

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2015

And this, given the Soviet experience in Afghanistan and Putin’s experience in eastern Ukraine, is far from certain. Finally, the opportunities assume Putin’s gambits in Syria and with Syria, Iran, and Iraq in intelligence and security cooperation will succeed. Dalan McEndree has a BA in history, MA in European History, M.Phil.

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Plug In India

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Enterprising hunters in Afghanistan and Pakistan were the possible cause for a change in migration routes. Bharatpur is home to 300+ species of birds, of which about 200 are migratory. The most famous visitors have been the Siberian cranes. Alas, these visitors have stopped coming here since 2002.

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