Renewable to the Core: OIT taps campus geothermal resources

摘要

For more than a century, Oregonians have been harnessing the state's geothermal energy potential to heat buildings, melt snow off sidewalks, grow plants in greenhouses and more. Located 25 miles from the California border, the community of Klamath Falls, Ore., sits atop a particularly abundant supply of geothermal resources. (Nearly 600 wells are already used to heat 1,000 homes.) It was, in fact, these resources that prompted Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) to move its Klamath Falls campus to the northern part of the city in the early 1960s, specifically so the school could tap hot water from the earth's core to heat campus buildings.