Powering Iraq bases with trash—Back to the Future Style
Remember in Back to the Future II, when Doc came back from the future in the Delorean? Remember how he powered up that flux capacitor without using plutonium, instead using some trash (a banana peel, some beer and the beer can)?

Well, it looks like the U.S. Army has figured out a similar way to power generators at Baghdad bases. That’s right, they’re using “prototype generators — running on food slop, shredded documents and ammunition wrappers…”
The unit’s are called Tactical biorefineries and they sound pretty cool in a crazy Doc scientist kinda way.
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Greg McNeal is a professor and national security specialist focusing on the institutions and challenges associated with global security, with substantive expertise in national security law and policy, transnational crime, global policy studies, and international affairs.
He teaches at Pepperdine University's School of Law and School of Public Policy.Recent Posts
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