{"id":519829,"date":"2010-04-07T20:43:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T00:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8052"},"modified":"2010-04-07T20:43:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T00:43:22","slug":"u-s-army-funds-energy-efficient-makeover-for-ceramics-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519829","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Army Funds Energy Efficient Makeover for Ceramics Manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8053\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/07\/u-s-army-funds-energy-efficient-makeover-for-ceramics-manufacturing\/new-breakthrough-for-energy-efficient-ceramics\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8053\" title=\"new breakthrough for energy efficient ceramics\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/new-breakthrough-for-energy-efficient-ceramics.jpg\" alt=\"North Carolina State University researchers develop new energy efficient process for manufacturing ceramics\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a>In their ever expanding drive to create <a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2009\/04\/10\/military-spending-goes-up-carbon-bootprint-goes-down\/\" >a more sustainable military<\/a>, the various branches of the U.S. armed forces have entered some interesting new territories, from <a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/03\/18\/u-s-navy-swabs-the-decks-with-recycled-wastewater\/\" >wastewater recycling<\/a> to <a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/03\/31\/u-s-air-force-pumps-up-a-10c-thunderbolt-ii-with-camelina-biofuel\/\" >weed-powered jet planes<\/a> (okay so biofuel powered jet planes).\u00a0 Now the <a title=\"army research office website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arl.army.mil\/www\/default.cfm?Action=29&amp;Page=29\" >U.S. Army Research Office<\/a> has upped the ante with funding for a new technology that could <a title=\"ncsu press release\" href=\"http:\/\/news.ncsu.edu\/releases\/wmsconradceramics\/\" >drastically reduce the energy consumed by ceramics manufacturing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At first glance the Army&#8217;s interest in ceramics may seem somewhat off base but in addition to its usefulness in the manufacture of coffee mugs, ceramic material plays a significant role in military equipment such as <a title=\"globalsecurity.org website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/military\/systems\/ground\/interceptor.htm\" >ceramic body armor<\/a> and heat shields, as well as numerous other uses including insulators and spark plugs.<\/p>\n<h3> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/07\/u-s-army-funds-energy-efficient-makeover-for-ceramics-manufacturing\/#more-8052\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their ever expanding drive to create a more sustainable military, the various branches of the U.S. armed forces have entered some interesting new territories, from wastewater recycling to weed-powered jet planes (okay so biofuel powered jet planes).\u00a0 Now the U.S. Army Research Office has upped the ante with funding for a new technology that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}