GITMO GOES GREEN

Happy belated Earth Day, enemy com­bat­ants! You may be stay­ing here at Guantanamo Bay indef­i­nitely. And lawyers might be a bit tricky to come by. But at least we won’t be burn­ing up a whole lot of oil to keep the lights on when we force you to stay awake! Nope, now we’ve got four brand-​​spanking-​​new, 275-​​foot tall wind tur­bines sup­ply­ing the power around here, Defense Industry Daily says.
Together, the four tur­bines will gen­er­ate 3,800 kw [kilo­watts], and in years of typ­i­cal weather the wind tur­bines will pro­duce almost 8 mil­lion kilowatt-​​hours of elec­tric­ity. They will reduce the con­sump­tion of 650,000 gal­lons of diesel fuel, reduce air pol­lu­tion by 26 tons of sul­fur diox­ide and 15 tons of nitrous oxide, and reduce green­house gas emis­sions by 13 mil­lion pounds each year.
The new wind tur­bines will pro­vide as much as 25% of the base’s power gen­er­a­tion dur­ing the high-​​wind months of late sum­mer, and are expected to save tax­pay­ers $1.2 mil­lion in annual energy costs.
Sweet!

April 27th, 2005 | Bizarro | Comments Off Both comments and pings are currently closed.