Land-Rich Colleges Explore Opportunities to Create Alternative-Energy Sources

Autor/in	Carlson, Scott
Titel	Land-Rich Colleges Explore Opportunities to Create Alternative-Energy Sources
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (2008) 46, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Campuses; Higher Education; Energy; Climate; Internet; Appropriate Technology; Delivery Systems; Power Technology; Energy Management; Political Attitudes; Earth Science; California; Colorado; Florida; New Jersey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Energie; Klima; Auslieferung; Antriebstechnik; Energiehaushalt; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Earth sciences; Geowissenschaften; Kalifornien
Abstract	In a time of expensive energy and concerns about climate change, land may be a major asset for colleges, providing a vastly different opportunity than it did in the past, when it was merely a place to set down new buildings, new campuses, or research parks. Since new alternative-energy technologies like wind and solar demand a lot of land--along with some technical expertise and considerable investment--colleges are finding that they are a good match for companies looking to establish wind farms, solar arrays, or other renewable-energy sources. Colorado State University may provide the most remarkable example of a project in planning. Next year, on an 11,000-acre ranch donated to the university in the 1950s, wind turbines might start poking up from the landscape to churn in the gales. The university originally thought that the area, northwest of the Fort Collins campus near Wyoming, would support a 65-megawatt project, or about 30 turbines. However, the latest meteorological data say the strong winds there could drive up to 100 turbines, or a 200-megawatt system. One hundred turbines would produce more than 12 times what the university would consume at peak usage. Colorado State's wind farm may be the largest renewable-energy project planned at a college at the moment, but the notion of using college acreage for energy has occurred to many other institutions. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10