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Gagarin1961 t1_iu4p2f6 wrote

Reply to comment by redingerforcongress in GM will make an Ultium battery pack prototype for the US military by redingerforcongress

Never understood why Democrats never pushed to move the military past the strategically important, but limited in quantity, fossil fuels.

If they want to push the world forward, transitioning the worlds largest producer of emissions is an important start… yet it’s just a minor consideration. They have control over the worlds largest producer of emissions, and they don’t even care.

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americansherlock201 t1_iu4x5ai wrote

I’d recommend you look into the military and see that they’ve already been doing a lot of that. They’ve been moving away from fossil fuels for years now. Just because you don’t see a member of congress talking about it doesn’t mean it’s not happening. US military reliance on fossil fuels has been dropping for years already.

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Gagarin1961 t1_iu55ztm wrote

I have looked into it, but there is no big push to turn the military green. No politician is talking about it.

I guess because it can’t be used for divisive purposes? Are the democrats really using climate change to “get” corporations or do they want to actually put effort into the emissions they actually control?

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americansherlock201 t1_iu568ex wrote

There isn’t a “big push” politically because it is already happening. The military long ago realized the benefit of a green military and has been working towards that. Publicly calling for them to do it would result in any politician getting laughed at when they are shown that it’s already happening.

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BingBongMcGong t1_iu4vhlm wrote

Huh? Do you have a source that shows Democrats hamstringing the military's efforts to move away from fossil fuels?

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Gagarin1961 t1_iu54uhs wrote

Hamstring? They haven’t been doing anything to a legitimate degree at all.

No action is confusing when they are literally the ones in control of it. Instead they focus on corporations that they don’t control.

It’s so confusing it makes me question their true motives, actually.

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MilkshakeBoy78 t1_iu6l4hb wrote

> Instead they focus on corporations that they don’t control.

that's good because the military is already going green for years.

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pantslespaul t1_iu51nhp wrote

China is by far the largest producer of emissions. I’m not sure how the US Military would be involved in reducing that….

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Gagarin1961 t1_iu554tz wrote

China is not a single entity, they’re a country of millions of individual companies and organizations.

The US military is the largest producer of emissions of any one organization/entity.

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hurffurf t1_iu54rvg wrote

Everything in the army runs on jet fuel because aircraft are where something like 80% of the fuel goes. There's no battery fighter jets. It's still a massive amount of emissions but making every land vehicle in the military electric reduces their total fuel consumption by like 2%.

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Gagarin1961 t1_iu55fz5 wrote

The military can already synthesize jet fuel from the air and the ocean.

There is not large scale move to transition to that, though.

The technology literally exists and the leaders aren’t embracing it. Make you wonder…

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