Air Force's Energy-Saving Strategy Focuses on Operational Changes

By Suzanne Yohannan / June 20, 2006 at 5:00 AM
Inside Green Business -- Concerned about rising fuel prices, the Air Force has laid out an energy strategy designed to overhaul its aviation operations -- including the use of alternative fuels, improving aircraft technology, and reducing flight times by relying more on flight simulators, among other measures -- in an effort to reduce energy costs. The strategy also describes infrastructure and facility changes to reduce energy consumption, many of which the Air Force has already implemented, according to one Defense...

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