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As MIT Aims to Decarbonize, Competing Ideas Focus on Thermal Energy Systems

Inside Climate News · By Phil McKenna · last updated
The MIT Alumni/Student Decarbonization Team will host a forum on a plan that members say could save the university hundreds of millions of dollars. MIT isn’t so sure.

By Phil McKenna

Ditch fossil fuels in less than half the time and save half a billion dollars or more on what you would otherwise spend to decarbonize. That’s the pitch a group of students, alumni and faculty will make to administrators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at a campus decarbonization forum today.