Cornell Chronicle
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So long, natural gas heat: Let the Earth warm little fingers and toes.
The construction of a new, environmentally friendly heating and cooling system at the Cornell Child Care Center – a standalone building adjacent to the A Lot on Pleasant Grove Road – will likely start in late summer.
This new heating and cooling structure will be the Ithaca campus’s first full-scale ground-source heat pump installation.
Managed by Engineering and Project Management in Facilities and Campus Services, the project – formally called the Vertical Closed-Loop Geothermal System – will remove the old, carbon-heavy natural gas heating system and replace it with ground-source heat by early 2023.
Through this new system, an antifreeze and water mixture will circulate through the geothermal loop, traveling from the wells (drilled to a depth of less than 500 feet) into the building to provide heat. The same equipment will provide cooling in the summer by reversing the process, as the fluid loop captures heat from inside the child care center and sends the heat into the Earth.
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