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The search is on for an alternative way to fuel the district heating system, with the smallest possible environmental footprint and the smallest impact on the existing system.
Find a way to fully decarbonise the heating system, and in one fell swoop, the target of a 50% cut in greenhouse gas emissions across the entire university is achievable.
This is a very big incentive.
The college deemed it to be a good enough reason to team up with Geological Survey Ireland and go testing to see just how hot it is likely to be deep under the ground.
"We found 38.5C, which was beyond what the science was suggesting and that has led us to want to drill 2.5km deep, the first borehole of that depth on the island of Ireland," Mr Geraghty said.
"If we drill down and find water, that would be the holy grail because we could simply pump the water up to heat and run our own systems and manage to decarbonise our heating completely.
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