[trees-list] Fwd: 100% Renewable Energy Campus

[Peter M.J. Hess]

Whitney,

Sustainability is of course a fundamental objective, but geothermal energy 
is ecologically quite destructive and not ultimately sustainable beyond 
30-50 years.  I would encourage UNR to look into alternatives.

Peter

At 10:00 AM 3/4/2003 -0800, Whitney Bauman wrote:

>>User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022
>>Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:56:54 -0800
>>Subject: 100% Renewable Energy Campus
>>From: Jason Venetoulis <jvenetoulis@westcoastefs.org>
>>To: "WCN   2 (9/02)" <jvenetoulis@westcoastefs.org>
>>
>> From the EFS Listserve:
>>
>>University Campus Goes Renewable
>>
>>Nevada will soon be the only campus in the world to
>>be run entirely by renewable energy. University of Nevada at
>>Reno has entered into a new 30-year contract with Advanced
>>Thermal Systems (ATS) to provide affordable, clean power to
>>the campus. ATS will build a new 11 MegaWatt geothermal
>>power plant adjacent to the new campus.
>>
>>To view the complete article, visit:
>>http://www.solaraccess.com/news/story?storyid=3727
>>
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