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Carbondale's Third Street Center goes geothermal

Carbondale, Colo. (KREX) — Innovation manager Jon Fox-Rubin tells me last month, CLEER, or Clean Energy Economy for the Region, completed its first several-hundred-foot-deep test borehole in the yard of the Third Street Center.

Carbondale's mayor Ben Bohmfalk explains he looks forward to the outcome of this test trial.

Director of the Third Street Center Colin Laird tells me solar panels produce more energy than the building can consume, so why would introducing geothermal into the mix even be necessary.?

Fox-Rubin explains switching to an all-electric system is not only harder, but less cost effective.

The funding for this $25,000 test project is us, the United States taxpayers through the Dept. of Energy Congressional Appropriations process.

This sixteen-acre parcel soon to have geothermal power will serve both the center as well as a row of townhomes nearby.

Fox-Rubin says the pressure is on to make this work, not only from the town and the center, but also the Department of Energy.

Only time will tell just how big of an impact this new system may have.


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