By the time a geothermal energy project at Missouri University of Science and Technology is completed in 2014, the campus's annual energy use will be cut in half and its carbon footprint reduced by 25,000 metric tons per year.
University officials broke ground on the project on April 17 by drilling a hole in one of the geothermal well fields northeast of Emerson Hall, the campus's electrical and computer engineering building on the Rolla, Mo., campus.
Missouri S&T's geothermal energy system will replace the university's aging coal-fired power plant.
