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Yale is soon to test out a new way of heating and cooling campus buildings without burning fossil fuels: by drawing from the earth’s temperature 850 feet below “Science Hill.”
They announced plans to drill 190 geothermal bores beneath the northeastern part of the university’s “Science Hill,” a cluster of laboratory buildings between the lower parts of Whitney Avenue and Prospect Street.
Specifically, the geothermal system would be clustered beneath 170–272 Whitney Ave., where Yale is planning to build a new Physical Sciences and Engineering Building.
As a low-carbon energy system, “this is going to have a significant impact in reducing fossil fuels” at Yale, which has pledged to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by 2035
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