The Navy Looks to the Future on Energy Security Posted by James Lamond

The Navy Times reports yesterday that:

The Department of the Navy is set to sign a deal with the Department of Agriculture that officials say will better enable both agencies to cooperate in developing alternative ways to power tomorrow’s fleet.

This is a great move for a number of reasons.  First, DoD is the world largest single consumer of energy and as a Brookings report from this summer by Pete Singer says:

Access to reliable and affordable energy resources is absolutely fundamental to the operations and readiness of the U.S. military. In recent years, rising costs, variability in supply, and a host of challenging technical and environmental objectives have elevated the issue of energy security for our armed forces.

This move by the Dep. of Navy is the most recent in a growing trend of national security organizations adapting to double challenges of climate change and energy security.  One of the first agencies was the National Intelligence Council, who in the 2008 "Global Trends" predicts that the national security implications of climate change will be one of the greatest challenges we will face in the coming years and decades.  This summer the CIA opened up a center on climate change and national security, which will analyze and coordinate  how the effects of climate change (desertification, rising sea levels, increased competition for resources, climate refugees and other population migration).  The CIA's center will also provide declassified images and information to climate change scientists to assist in their research. Additionally the Army is developing hybrid hummer. 

One hope for the Navy Department's -and the overall move by DoD -move is that it will increase production and technology of alternative fuels, eventually making it more efficient and cheaper for more widespread.  For years DoD investment in technologies have often led to this pattern.  Technologies like the airplane, the SUV, the internet and GPS have either been invented by the military, or the investments in those technologies by the military helped bring them into the main stream of society.  Hopefully as the military invests more in "green technologies" we will see similar effects. 

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