The greening of the United States government is not only limited to President Obama’s promise of greater energy efficiency, the Department of Energy (DOE), or as we said earlier the Department of Defense (DOD). The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released a statement on Earth Day that highlighted its efforts to improve its energy efficiency.
The key strategy: burning classified documents to generate power in CIA headquarters.
The on-site incinerator produces steam that heats the water in its headquarters. The process also conserves paper that would otherwise end up in landfills.
According to the release, the Agency uses “20 percent less energy and approximately 40 percent less water than typical buildings of the same size and use.”
For a department that tackles climate change as a national security issue, the energy efficiency programs make sense, and the Agency has indeed tapped (no pun intended) into a new renewable energy source.
