So Harvard is going to push the energy fossel fuel source back up the line and out of sight so that it’s not burned on campus? Or that all the heat and electricity for their dorms is going to be from solar panels, or from a direct, exclusive link to a hydroelectric generator unmixed with fuel-derived electrons? Hmmmm. Watch the tuition escalate.
If they were serious, they could get this done in 5 years by switching to a nuclear power plant and golf carts.
Watch the tuition escalate.
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Watch the students freeze ... or bake as the season may be,
After a super long article it seems the answer is a tax. Always a tax.
The committee recommended that the University implement a surcharge on fossil-fuel consumption on the campus in order to fund becoming fossil-fuel-neutral by 2026. A surcharge is conceptually equivalent to what many people have talked about as a carbon tax. One way to think about it is: Every time I turn on a light, I’m not only lighting the room, but I’m creating some damages. The goal of a surcharge or a carbon tax would be to ask you to pay a little bit toward that.
Back to Whale oil?
And no plastics either.