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In the Iraqi war zone, US Army calls for ‘green’ power

SEP 07, 2006
Physics Today
The Christian Science Monitor : Memo to Pentagon brass from the top United States commander in western Iraq: Renewable energy - solar and wind-power generators - urgently needed to help win the fight. Send soon.Calling for more energy in the middle of oil-rich Iraq might sound odd to some. But not to Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Richard Zilmer, whose deputies on July 25 sent the Pentagon a “Priority 1" request for “a self-sustainable energy solution” including “solar panels and wind turbines.”
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