Beyond Petroleum: Navy Seals Leading the Charge (10/21/11)

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🗓️ 25 October 2011

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Beyond Petroleum: Navy Seals Leading the Charge Jackalyne Pfannenstiel, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Energy & Installations Jeremy Carl, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University The U.S. military has ambitious plans to reduce its dangerous dependence on oil and other fossil fuels. Can the buying power of the Pentagon drive innovation in new energy technologies and create markets? This conversation explores how the U.S. Navy and other military branches can align their intellectual and financial capital to accelerate and broaden the transition to cleaner sources of electricity and transportation fuels for American forces and the American economy. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on October 21, 2011 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	On Earth Day in 2010, two historic events happened in the world of American energy.
1:05.0	In the Gulf of Mexico, the blazing deep water horizon oil rig fell into the Gulf, eventually spilling 170 million gallons of crude oil.
1:15.3	At about the same time on a military and Navy air base in Maryland, something else really important happened.
1:21.8	The U.S. Navy tested an F.A. 18 Super Hornet, a fighter jet that was powered by blend of petroleum and biofuels.
1:31.6	If the BP oil disaster was a wake-up call about the costs and dangers of extracting fossil fuels,
1:37.5	the U.S. Navy heard it loud and clear.
1:40.0	Navy Secretary Ray Mabas said an ambitious goal of providing half of the power that the Navy uses on shore and afloat from renewable non-fossil fuels by 2020.
1:51.1	I should say non-fossil fuels because it includes nuclear energy.
1:54.3	Can that goal be met? How?
1:56.0	What will the impact will the Navy have on other branches of the armed services and commercial markets for technology such as biofuels and solar power?
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