Originally posted at >>>/qrb/135807 (242154ZMAY22) Notable: U.S. Navy Climate Plan Aims to Cut Emissions and Move to Low-Carbon Fuels
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U.S. Navy Climate Plan Aims to Cut Emissions and Move to Low-Carbon Fuels
May 24, 2022 By Timothy Gardner
WASHINGTON, May 24 (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy released on Tuesday a climate strategy that aims to make the force more resilient to changes like sea level rise and coastal erosion while moving faster to low-carbon fuels and hybrid engines for ships and planes.
The Climate Action 2030 plan, is part of the Biden administration’s wider goal of decarbonizing the economy by 2050.
“By building a climate ready force, our sailors and Marines will be able to fight and win anywhere in the world in any condition,” Meredith Berger, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installation, Environment told reporters.
The Navy’s bases in Norfolk, Virginia, and San Diego, California, and the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina are among the Defense Department’s facilities most vulnerable to rising seas, high temperatures, flooding and wildfires from climate change.
The plan offered little detail on how to broadly reduce emissions or switch to alternative fuels. But it spurs officials to report in 90 days to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro ways to harden infrastructure, adapt to climate, and reduce emissions and fuel consumption.
Berger pointed to the USS Makin Island, an amphibious assault ship deployed in 2009 that uses GE GE.N hybrid systems with electric and natural gas or diesel fired turbines to increase efficiency, as an example of ways to cut fuel dependency.
“Hybridization is something that we’ve seen some good results with, but there’s also a lot of development to do in terms of technology,”Post too long. Click here to view the full text.