Originally Posted by
flyingorthopod
Absolutely spot on.
And anything which makes the military more fuel efficient and military aviation less dependent on imported hydrocarbons has strategic and tactic advantages.
agreed. A lot of people also seem to equate a push towards lower emissions with lower performance. Absolutely doesn't have to be the case. There's so much low hanging fruit it's untrue. Anyone who's been around an airfield has seen how much crap the fire engines push out - their worst case use has to be "drive 5 miles and run a pump for ten minutes". After which the airfield is black anyway so feel free to plug them in!
Solar is a known quantity in terms of payback time and the MOD isn't short of roof space, so push for that. All of this before you go anywhere near controversial stuff like biofuels (definite pros and cons there) and potentially reduced performance for the warfighter.