Navy looks to gamers for ideas to end oil dependence

U.S. Department of Defense, Stars & Stripes, Navy websites ^ | 23 May 2012 | U.S. Navy, DOD, Stars & Stripes

[mbarker12474]

The U.S. Navy. "A Global Force for Good."

[blueunicorn6]

Sails and oars. Where’s my money?

[chris37]

Here’s the plan, sir.

Stop being stuck on stupid.

[KarlInOhio]

Sails and oars. Where’s my money?

Full employment for welfare recipients. Row well and live.

And you never want to hear the captain order "Water skiing speed!"

[twister881]

"The Navy is hoping that online game playing will yield new ideas as the service seeks to reduce its exposure to the uncertainties of the global oil market."

You don't need gamers...just get rid of Bathhouse Barry and his Marxist claque in November (including Ray Mabus, Obama @$$-kisser supreme and current SecNav), and the country can have plenty of domestic energy supplies to fuel ships and aircraft.

[ILS21R]

[thackney]

Admiral Rickover had already figured this out decades ago.

Navy Nukes.

[mikey_hates_everything]

If it’s an emergency, seize a well or two in the Spratlys from the Chinese? And a few tankers? I’m sure the Philippines would be happy to refine the crude to diesel and jet fuel for us.

[Darksheare]

Seems we once had a nuclear navy that didn’t require much by way of oil except for aircraft...

[alloysteel]

Harness porpoises and whales. Otherwise, teleportation should be developed to achieve relocation of the entire fleet around the world at light speed. Think of what an intimidation tactic THAT would be.

Seriously, it takes a lot of carbon-based fuels to power the smaller vessels, and the Navy’s air arm. Not sure we could grow that many soybeans or corn for the fuel requirements. The larger vessels are, for the most part, powered by nuclear reactors, which have had a remarkable record for reliability and comparative safety.

Scooping Methane Hydrate up out of the muck at ocean’s bottom would tap into a plentiful resource, but as of now, technical problems have limited any application of this proposed extraction method. We will probably have to rely on carbon-based fuels for centuries to come, simply because short of tapping into nuclear energy, the useful energy release from combustion of carbon-based fuel is the highest yield available to us in an oxygen-based atmosphere.

[MasterGunner01]

Three words, US Navy: “Drill, baby, drill.” Out.

[Iron Munro]

Cut out the Pandering and Political Correctness and get back to concentrating on your reason to exist - the defense of the nation and of the US Constitution.

I’d like my reward to be paid in pre-1965 silver coins.

[BitWielder1]

The military should be exempt from all the PC and Green idiocy.
No alternate fuels of any kind, no methanol, only the real thing that's known to work reliably every time.
They should just declare that alternate fuels don't meet military requirements and say no.
That includes a dependable supply, which alternated fuels don't have.
The military have a mission to fulfill and it's not social engineering.

[Gordon Pym]

I’d like my reward to be paid in pre-1965 silver coins.

Actually, I think coins were dated 1965 for multiple years. You'd probably better ask for 1964 or earlier without even mentioning '65

[Timber Rattler]

Apparently the game is now closed-—no more new players being accepted at its website.

[BenLurkin]

I guess using Enhanced Radiation A-bombs to depopulate the OPEC nations is too obvious a solution.

[BitWielder1]

alternated -> alternate

[BenLurkin]

Philippines would be happy to refine the crude to diesel and jet fuel for us.

Yup!

[meatloaf]

The answer is simple. Read my tagline.

[ColdSteelTalon]

Drill baby drill !!! problem solved.