Enemy combatants can rest a little easier now, knowing that wind supplies 25 percent of the energy required to keep them incarcerated.
I’m sure the Cubans are breathing a little easier too.
At Guantanamo Bay, where the military imports large quantities of diesel fuel for power generation, the wind turbines are expected to reduce diesel consumption by 650,000 gallons per year for a savings of $1.2 million.
This, of course, also offers some environmental benefits including a reduction of 26 tons of sulfur dioxide, 15 tons of nitrous oxide and 13 million pounds of greenhouse gas emissions every year, according to the DON.
Together, the four 950 kW NEG Micon turbines will generate enough electricity to supply about 25 percent of the peak power needed to operate the base. In years of typical weather, the wind turbines will produce almost 8 million kWh of electricity.
I heard the 25 percent wind power statistic briefly mentioned in passing in an NPR story today about the prison, so I just had to look it up to find out more.
So now enemy combatants get 25 percent wind energy in Cuba, and the United States gets 0.04 percent? What’s up with that?
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