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Why Buy Electric Cars? Iraq Vet Says: For National Security

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Most Nissan Leaf owners are passionate about their electric cars, especially the earliest ones who've already taken delivery. But not all of them have served three tours of military duty, including service in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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US Department of Defense releases roadmap to transform energy use in military operations

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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. —Secretary of Defense Leon E.

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US Military going green

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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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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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In Jules Verne’s 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon , members of the fictitious Baltimore Gun Club, all disabled Civil War veterans, restlessly search for a new enemy to conquer. soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. They had spent the war innovating new, deadlier weaponry.