Originally Posted by
BEagle
Excellent idea. Achievable, effective, realistic and helpful. New houses should have heat pumps, solar power, battery storage and solar hot water.
There'd be fewer forest fires in future if we can limit climate change.
In re operational capability, while battery power for some military vehicles may be great, its still heavy and we need electricity. A little deployable nuclear plant sounds great but would be a messy target. So we may be a way off this. Biofuels have their own issues but if we can produce them without basically starving developing world children by nicking their food to make ethanol, might be good. Otherwise we need interim solutions based on efficiency and reduced fossil fuel use, and efficiency and reduced fuel use means military advantage.