Faculty representative Robert Howarth and partner members of the Cornell University Senior Leaders Climate Action Group presented findings about sustainable energy alternatives and their correlating costs at Tuesday’s University Assembly meeting. Leaderboard 1To underscore the University’s need for an alternative energy system, Howarth discussed the financial and environmental damages inflicted by present fuel usage. He compared carbon neutral energy alternatives with the social cost of carbon, a value determined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Cornell researcher William Schulze. “At the time [the University] switched from coal to natural gas, we were using conventional natural gas,” he said. Leaderboard 2“We are interested in using ground source heat, extracting heat from the earth as a heating mechanism,” he said.

Source: Daily Sun October 19, 2016 04:07 UTC