A Brooklyn public high school is making history by heating its entire campus with vegetable oil biofuel, becoming the first in New York City to fully convert to the renewable energy system, according to CBS New York.
In the basement of Edward R. Murrow High School in Midwood, four boilers power the sprawling school of roughly 4,000 students. Instead of relying on traditional fossil fuels, the system runs on vegetable oil biofuel, a low-emission alternative that school officials say could be scaled across the city, the station reported.
Murrow is the first school in the city to install the renewable energy system, part of a broader effort to explore ways to reduce emissions in the surrounding community. The school sits in a neighborhood where school staff say vehicle congestion and truck routes create air pollution, CBS reported.
"We can implement that in other buildings in the city [where] it makes sense, in your local hospital, your libraries, even your apartment complexes," Jesse John, Murrow's sustainability and greenhouse coordinator, told CBS. "If we implement that across all of those buildings, we could really save a lot of carbon emissions."
