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War Machine Transformation

Trish Nguyen
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Nuclear-powered USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) arrived off the coast of Port-Au-Prince on January 15th to aid in the humanitarian efforts in Haiti. The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier deported from Norfolk, Va. picking up other helicopters, equipment, support, and personnel en route to the coast of the Caribbean nation.  As part of its relief efforts, the USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) has been able to transform its war technology and use it to produce nearly 400,000 gallons of purified water each day by separating sea salt from the water by a process of evaporation using the excess heat produced from the carrier’s nuclear reactor. 

While production for the non-salinated water has already begun, the mission faces challenges of containing the water and transporting it into Haiti, although delivery of the purified water is currently in progress via helicopter.

 

Image "Aircraft Carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)" by Ian Vaughan courtesy of Creative Commons on Flickr.

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Wow!

Submitted by Naugahyde_Budda on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 13:07.
Wow. And I thought all the spending on military guff was obscenely wasteful. How wrong I was. We should build more of these nuclear thingys. They will come in useful in future humanitarian emergencies.

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nature and military convenience

Submitted by Vladimir on Sat, 01/23/2010 - 11:04.

Their plans are never less then pure evil. ......How conveniently this diseaster, like all others, strikes poorest people and at the same time lets forget about all the scandals and deceptions that are going on the political level.  Deception after deception, illusion after illusion, people will never open their eyes.

Thank you mother nature for working hand in hand with our military!!! and thanks to electromagnetic and tectonic weapons, ...without you, it wouldnt look so obvious.

Propaganda....

Submitted by Naugahyde_Budda on Thu, 01/21/2010 - 06:06.

 ...is propaganda. I dont care how many candy bars the occupying troops give out its still an occupation. I'm a bit surprised that RS is cheerleading the US military in this. I'd also google 'HAARP' and do a bit of research about the US governments ability to cause earthquakes.

http://rebelreports.com/post/341673601/us-security-company-offers-to-per...

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burn notice

Submitted by Axiom on Thu, 01/21/2010 - 09:04.
You f**kers just got BURNED ohhhhhh shiiit. Sry. Nice burn sir. Tip of the hat to you. hehehehe :]

Or the money could have been

Submitted by Psychegram on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 20:50.
Or the money could have been spent on humanitarian technology in the first place. A nuclear aircraft carrier is a hell of an expensive way to purify water. Also of interest: tiny little Iceland, on the other side of the Atlantic, flat broke and with plenty of its own problems, was one of the first countries to get an aid team to Haiti. Even Palestine managed and how the bleep can they afford that? Meanwhile the Hyperpower languidly sends in a carrier group and thousands of marines, days after the fact. China (on the other side of the globe ) got there faster. Let's not leave out Cuba, who had 400 doctors and medical personnel already deployed before there was an earthquake to get everyone all hot and bothered, just because, you know ... they actually care. Let's not be coy: the US military is not in Haiti to help people. It is using the chaos as cover to establish a foothold, nothing more.

Re-application, not transformation.

Submitted by seachanged on Wed, 01/20/2010 - 02:27.

There has been no "transformation" of war technology to make 400,000 gallons a day. Carl Vinson has always been able to do that, as it generally carries a crew of 3000 sailors. That works out to 133 gallons apiece per day, which is about what it takes to support an American under normal circumstances in suburbia.

Quoting from a different article, "..and the Vinson has a daily excess of 200,000 gallons "that we can give away," says Cmdr. William McKinley, who oversees the desalination process."

Just to put that into persective: a person needs a gallon of water a day, just to drink. There are 1.5 million that are now homeless in Haiti, as a result of the earthquake.

Our warship isn't there to establish a base. We're there to provide security for the relief operation. We spend 40 percent of the world's defense budget. It's the very least we can do. The desalination of water is incidental. We didn't even bring an efficient way to deliver it to the population.