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...University's controversial Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) receives a final green light from the state despite evidence that the plant's deisel emissions will corrode its own smokestacks within months...
...Starr. Tenure--so close and yet ever so far. And to Carlo Rubbia we must give our praise. For chasing those atoms for days and for days. Now Georgi, Glashow and many another. Can welcome you too as a Nobel Prize brother. For Lashman and Scott and the whole MATEP crew. Go on, fire it up--just hope they...
...plant MATEP replaces, the now-demolished Blackfan Street steam house, provided only steam and chilled water for air conditioning for the Medical Area. MATEP can churn out enough electricity to light up suburban Wellesley (population 28,000), air conditioning equal to 44,000 window-sized units, and all the needed steam--with only half the pollution--of the old facility...
...with MATEP, Harvard has spent seven years fighting in the courts, testing and retesting the diesel engines, and installing an elaborate air monitoring system--all of which have driven the plant's price tag up 500 percent. Every day the diesels remain idle, the hospitals lose money because the plant is not realizing the energy savings that would make it worthwhile...
...choice before the DEQE is stark: it can knuckle under to the Luddite irrationality of the protesters, or it can recognize finally that MATEP has been scrutinized more than enough. Certainly MATEP poses some environmental risks, but they are much less severe than those from other plants. And given the extensive safeguards in place and the obvious value of low-cost, reliable energy for the hospitals, it's time for the state to approve the diesels...