Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2011

To cut down on convoys trucking fuel to forward operating bases, as well as to implement the Department of the Navy’s vision for energy efficiency, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and elements within the US Marine Corps (USMC) have successfully demonstrated their goal to reduce petroleum and energy usage in remote locations in Afghanistan.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2010

Conway and other Marine and Navy leaders recently toured technical demonstrations by nearly 30 commercial vendors at the first Experimental Forward Operating Base (ExFOB) at Marine Corps Base Quantico. Logistics train in Afghanistan. Conway has been the catalyst for the Corps’ current work in energy conservation. Source: USMC.

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Mariner Afghanistan Water Power 218

Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2023

The authors demonstrated the methodology based on historical data from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The report found that the casualty factor for fuel resupply in Afghanistan was 0.042—i.e., 0.042 casualties for every fuel-related resupply convoy or one casualty for every 24 fuel resupply convoys in Afghanistan.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Another of the five goals is for the Department of the Navy to reduce petroleum use in its 50,000 strong commercial fleet by half by 2015. At the same time, he said, improvements to F/A-18 engines that will be in service by 2015 will improve the efficiency of each aircraft by 3%.

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2020 Afghanistan Energy Mariner 308

Cars That Think

APRIL 25, 2024

Afghanistan is still contaminated with many of these mines, left behind more than 40 years ago after the Soviet-Afghan War. In light of those conversations, we developed a user-friendly Web application called SpotlightAI.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 29, 2022

Today’s commercial high-resolution satellites can have a resolution of 30 centimeters. 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. ERTS had a spatial resolution of 80 meters.

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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. —Bill Cooke.

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