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Faculty in the College of Engineering answer questions from the community during an open house held on Nov. 9, 2021 at the site of Cornell University Borehole Observatory.
Earth Source Heat (ESH) has been part of Cornell’s Climate Action Plan since 2009. During a detailed review of Cornell’s energy portfolio and options that fit within the academic mission, ESH was identified by a working group of faculty and staff as the best option to reach carbon neutrality on the Ithaca campus by 2035. Since that time, the working group has conducted extensive outreach to on- and off-campus partners, including several community forums in downtown Ithaca. That outreach continues today and will be a standing part of the project for its duration.
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- Cornell’s deep-down and rocky quest to unlock geothermal for New York (Canary Media: Dec. 9, 2025)
- Why the time has finally come for geothermal energy (The New Yorker: Nov. 17, 2025)
- Novel Geothermal System to Come Online in Germany (IEEE Spectrum: Nov. 3, 2025)
- Unlikely alliance builds cleaner geothermal energy network (PBS: Oct. 10, 2025)
- They’re using the techniques honed by oil and gas to find near-limitless clean energy beneath our feet (CNN: July 22, 2025)
- Chloé Arson goes deep into the potential of geothermal heat (Cornell Chronicle Innovators & Impact Podcast: May 27, 2025)
- Unlocking Geothermal Energy in the Northeast (The National Interest: May 22, 2025)
- The time is ripe for a geothermal boom (The Hill: April 5, 2025)
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