German Army mounts offensive on carbon emissions

摘要

The latest phase of the German military's carbon-cutting campaign is a biomass-powered barracks featuring a state-of-the-art combined heat and power (CHP) plant. Baumholder officers' barracks in the southwest of the country - which house 300 personnel and can hold up to 2,500 soldiers in training - are to get their entire heat and electricity from wood grown in forests at the base. Just 10% of the standing trees will be enough to power the 250kW 'Enercarb' plant, and they will be replanted each year, so reabsorbing the carbon generated by the system.