Several years ago, Franklin Electric Co. became aware that thousands of children die every day in Africa from diseases caused by drinking dirty surface water.
Daniel Ortuño pulled a small piece of Texas history from a shelf in a building at the University of Texas at Austin. The yellowing piece of paper said that on Dec. 19, 1951, John L. Boyd began drilling a 1,350-foot-deep oil well through 17 layers of shale and limestone in Crockett County in southwest Texas.
Nearly 70 years after Ball State University installed its four coal-fired boilers, school employees have stopped shoveling, and the old system has gone cold as the university embraces renewable energy with the world’s largest district closed geothermal energy system.
One of Colorado’s largest geothermal projects recently drew to a close. Solaire Apartments in Brighton, Colo., is entirely heated and cooled by ground-source heat pumps.
Since its construction in 1908, Twin Maples has been a silent witness to history. Some of that history has been up close and very personal like its 2008 top-to-bottom makeover.