Sentences with phrase «fuel convoys»

From the US military's embrace of solar to reduce dangerous fuel convoys, to the low - tech community benefits of bike - based police patrols, we've often seen that a smarter approach to energy can yield real results for military and law enforcement applications.

The Army, for example, recently spent $ 95 million spraying tents in Iraq with foam insulation, slashing air conditioning demands nearly in half and eliminating an estimated 12 fuel convoys a day.

It may take another president, or two, before America's energy quest gets into the necessary gear, perhaps driven by a confluence of a new spike in oil prices and rising anger among veterans wounded protecting fuel convoys in Afghanistan and building evidence pointing to a growing, and harmful, human influence on the climate system.

By reducing reliance on fuel convoys and increasing domestic control over the Navy's energy supply, he said, the current shift will do the same.

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Fuel - starved Nepal has signed an agreement with China to import gasoline, diesel and cooking gas, effectively ending a monopoly on supply from India, which has restricted fuel convoys as a result of political protests in the Himalayan nation.

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Outfitting bases with solar panels and wind turbines, he argued, would reduce the need for fuel - bearing convoys, which are vulnerable to attack and which draw soldiers away from their core mission.

Programming multiple trucks to travel in convoys would be beneficial, too: one truck could draft behind another, reducing air resistance and so using less fuel.

Mad Max features convoys around the world as well, as a group of cars work to protect a very valuable vehicle stocked with armor, scrap, and fuel.

«Those convoys that carry fuel are also known as targets,» said James Valdes, scientific adviser for biotechnology at the U.S. Army Research, Development & Engineering Command.