Monday, April 4, 2011

FW: In green era, an old idea gains steam

Energy company, city working together to use byproduct of electricity generation to heat and cool buildings
When Veolia Energy North America recently agreed to buy surplus heat from a Cambridge power plant and use it to warm downtown Boston buildings, it was widely celebrated as a green solution to a problem of a company discharging hot, harmful water into the cool Charles River. Read more: http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/articles/2011/04/04/in_green_era_an_old_idea_gains_steam/
Article courtesy of The Boston Globe-Green Blog by Beth Daley -Globe Staff