re: #13 erik_t
This times a million. Biofuels, too. The US military is one of the very few large organizations that, for better or for worse, is able and willing to rationally plan decades ahead because it knows that nothing will ever neuter their budget.
It’s extremely telling what they make long-distance plans for.
Short term too. IIRC, the largest solar farm in the world is on Marine Corps Base Twenty Nine Palms.