Here’s a fun one.
Nato should examine how it can power tanks and jets with alternative energy, such as solar panels, to reduce its carbon emissions, the alliance’s secretary general said.
Reducing reliance on fossil fuels would also make troops less vulnerable to attack because they would not have to rely on long supply lines getting fuel to the front line, Jens Stoltenberg said.
The Nato chief suggested that militaries should advance research into low-emitting vehicles because of the advantages they bring, at an online seminar titled New Ideas for Nato 2030.
“Nato should do its part to look into how we can reduce emissions from military operations,” he told the Chatham House event. “We know that heavy battle tanks or fighter jets and naval ships consume a lot of fossil fuel and emit greenhouse gases and therefore we have to look into how we can reduce those emissions by alternative fuels, solar panels or other ways of running our missions.”
https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/nato-chief-suggests-battle-tanks-with-solar-panels-as-militaries-go-green-1.1160313
Best line in the story.
He told the seminar that his background as a UN envoy on climate change helped with the proposals.
https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/nato-chief-suggests-battle-tanks-with-solar-panels-as-militaries-go-green-1.1160313
Willis commented about this news story on social media thusly
The stupid, it burns … an M1 tank gets 0.6 mpg. A gallon of diesel contains ~ 40 kWh of energy. A solar panel puts out ~ 1 kWh per day. A solar panel is about 17 sq. ft. You MIGHT fit four of them on an M1 tank without impairing the weapons and sensors. Then you’d need four Tesla Powerwall batteries, weight half a ton.With that setup, every ten days you could move your tank 0.6 miles …w.
The GWPF also covered this story with this excellent cartoon by Josh.
What’s he talking about not having to rely on long supply lines, what about ammunition, food and most importantly the extra medical supplies and body bags because the troops were sitting duck’s because it was cloudy or dark. Or perhaps they had a full charge when they were attacked but could only retreat half a mile. Madness.
The new anti-tank weapon: cheap, low-flying drones with cans of flat black spray paint. Psssht! The attack was repulsed sir! They deployed Taggers!
Assign four green crew members to each solar tank. No green draft dodging.
There is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate and there is plenty of scientific rationale to support the conclusion that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is zero. Hence any reduction in CO2 emissions will have no effect on climate. A better approach to all this is to take actions to reduce the need for armed conflict.
There will no longer be a need for armed conflict when everyone gets their way and no one feels cheated or denigrated. That includes the people who are paranoid and insecure.
Another Putin project inside NATO.
There is a great lidless eye that watches all from behind the walls of Mordor.
This kind of stupidly exists at every level in the so called UN
So, even if there were such a thing as a 500 kWh battery, it would power a battle tank for 34 – 24 minutes. Better hope the battle doesn’t last long!
<i>They are usually equipped with a 1,200–1,500 hp (890–1,120 kW) engine</i>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_battle_tank
Welcome to the EU and NATO, you’re going to like it here. honest
The dark lord in the Kremlin sees all.
So until all the wrinkles can be ironed out of the solar tanks, all tank from now should have regenerative braking systems, renewable exhaust catalytic converters, and tracks knitted from recycled and renewable materials.
I have read the claim that the average intelligence has been increasing over the past several decades. There is little empirical evidence to support that — in fact, quite the opposite! However, it does seem that the malady starts in Europe and finds its way across the pond, not unlike COVID-19.
It seems that there is a mathematical relationship – the intelligence of officials is inversely proportional to the number of states in the organisation. If more states leave, the EU might get smarter!
It’s been a slow creep, but some that have gone through the educational process in recent decades might agree with “I have read the claim that the average intelligence has been increasing over the past several decades.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-education-math-white-supremacy
More passing grades! Proof of increasing intelligence!
More and more I find myself thinking of this:
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding yourself in the ranks of the insane.” – Marcus Aurelius
Good luck with that! Sanity is determined by the majority – if you’re in the minority, you’re insane, no matter how good your argument or reasoning is.
That is evidence that while our modern technology is vastly superior to Roman technology, the state of humanity has, at best, been static.
Lol.. I lived in Sweden for a couple of years and there was two weeks of sunshine in three months of summer. Good luck with that.
And we used to mock the French as “Cheese eating surrender monkeys”?
They look downright menacing compared to this guy.
“Royal Air Farce Hover Jet”…
Helium is separated and captured from natural gas. No fossil fuels means no helium.
Of course, they could always use large amount of electricity to split H₂O and fill the balloons with hydrogen… That worked so well in WWI.
Then again, tanks with burning lithium batteries will revive an old derogatory nickname given to our M4 Sherman tanks GI soldiers, They were called Ronson, as in “always lights the first time” Ronson lighters.
If helium gets in short supply we can still extract the helium from natural gas wells and just flare off the methane.
Following the Solar-Powered Tanks, the Infantry will be replaced with battalions armed with Solar-Powered Light Sabres.
Equally plausible.
(A magnetic field to contain plasma. We just need some Jedi’s to teach us how to make one.)
No wonder NATO is such a joke. It is run by clowns.
Puts me in mind of the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, where the titular Evangelions (or “Evas”) receive power from massive power cables plugged into the back and can operate for no more than 5 minutes on reserves when the cable is unplugged or severed (which is a major plot point in many battles).
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He is “secretary general”. Don’t know if he is a military general but I sure hope not.
good
good general
We already have nuclear powered ships that don’t burn fossil fuels for propulsion.
Chrysler once proposed a nuclear-powered battle tank.
We already have the answer to the Greenies’ fears, but they don’t want it as it doesn’t cause other people to suffer.
Musk is already thinking of a way to get government subsidies out of this.
Greens don’t do math. It just doesn’t feel right.
Maybe they should change the entire design of the tank. Instead of steel they should construct them out of Aluminum, fibreglass, and plastic with only fake armor. Instead of The treds that they use they can use bicycle wheels and tires. They can reduce the main gun to not more then 20 mm, They can hence reduce the weight so they can be moved with a small electric motor.and hence will not need a very large battery to operate, As a weapon such a tank would be useless but it would be more energy efficient.