Here comes the sun

This project was probably much easier since the Air Force didn't have to worry about blocking Ted Kennedy's beachfront views...

On Dec. 17, the Air Force will dedicate the largest solar array in North America at Nevada’s Nellis Air Force Base, on the same day that a C-17 transport plane makes the Air Force’s first crosscountry flight using a blend of synthetic fuel.

Giant wind turbines rise from the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Army leaders are embracing hybrid vehicles, fuel cells and other emerging technologies to help troops on the battlefield and to curb fuel consumption... A 280-megawatt power plant runs on geothermal energy — heat from the ground — at the China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station in California.

Renewable and alternative energy is more essential to National Security than boots on the ground in some far-off land. But let's not limit the advances to military posts... that smacks of a literal power grab by the State. Power to the people, please!