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NYC Mayor Wants Windmills On Top of Skyscrapers; In The Ocean
EconomicPolicyJournal.com ^

Posted on 08/20/2008 4:29:19 AM PDT by Kozman

NYC's Mayor Bloomberg yesterday proposed to develop wind turbines atop the Big Apple's bridges and skyscrapers.

The mayor also tossed out the possibility of building wind farms way out in the Atlantic Ocean, miles from shore, that he said could generate roughly twice the energy of similar land-based facilities and supply 10 percent of the city's electricity needs within a decade...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Science
KEYWORDS: energy; oil; wind; windpower
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1 posted on 08/20/2008 4:29:19 AM PDT by Kozman
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To: Kozman

Of course it will only cost 10 times as much (minimum) as a coal-fired powerplant that would produce 10x the electricity but since Mikey B. is an idiot this doesn’t matter.

Why do we keep electing morons to public office?


2 posted on 08/20/2008 4:32:37 AM PDT by 43north (The democrats are the party of evil.)
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To: 43north

Ask the morons that vote for him!


3 posted on 08/20/2008 4:34:34 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: Kozman
The mayor also tossed out the possibility of building wind farms way out in the Atlantic Ocean, miles from shore, that he said could generate roughly twice the energy of similar land-based facilities and supply 10 percent of the city's electricity needs within a decade

Oh so Bloomberg probably takes the Pelosi/Reid/Obama line that you can't drill for oil because results won't be seen for 10 years, while he is all for an unproven technology that will probably take more than 10 years. Hypocrites.

4 posted on 08/20/2008 4:43:56 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: Kozman
Bloomberg is balmy. Everyone knows that.

He needs a windmill mounted atop his head to power the mechanical brain implanted to replace the one he was born with.

5 posted on 08/20/2008 4:57:21 AM PDT by IbJensen (Ali Bama isn't going to make it!)
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To: Kozman

Mayor Pinwheel?


6 posted on 08/20/2008 4:57:45 AM PDT by Nakota
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To: Kozman
"Support Wind Energy..Keep Electing Blowhards..."
7 posted on 08/20/2008 4:59:03 AM PDT by xcamel (Conservatives start smart, and get rich, liberals start rich, and get stupid.)
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To: Kozman

Suggests some interesting scenes in the next remake of King Kong.


8 posted on 08/20/2008 5:03:58 AM PDT by jimfree (Freep and Ye shall find.)
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How long before those turbines and windmills on the skyscrapers start killing off the falcons and the other migratory birds and the environmentalist make us shut them down.


9 posted on 08/20/2008 5:05:49 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter.)
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To: Farmer Dean

Had the GOP run an actual Republican in NYC, I would’ve voted for him (or her).


10 posted on 08/20/2008 5:07:58 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter.)
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To: Kozman

I guess New York wasn’t ugly enough already.


11 posted on 08/20/2008 5:08:27 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (His Negritude has made his negritude the central theme of this campaign)
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I know next to nothing about engineering, but it seems to be few, if any, of those tall buildings were designed to accomodate the huge stress a windmill would add to the structure. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's not just the dead weight of the windmill but there's a tremendous load imposed by the wind pushing against the blades.
12 posted on 08/20/2008 5:15:02 AM PDT by jwparkerjr
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To: Kozman
I know next to nothing about engineering, but it seems to be few, if any, of those tall buildings were designed to accommodate the huge stress a windmill would add to the structure. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's not just the dead weight of the windmill but there's a tremendous load imposed by the wind pushing against the blades.
13 posted on 08/20/2008 5:15:15 AM PDT by jwparkerjr
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There is something wrong with Bloomberg. This is just not rational.

The engineering and expense to put a windmill out at see would be enormous.

Maintenance would be incledibly expensive. (Just half listeningint Dirty Jobs, the job was cleaning windmills, each one twice a week). Of course that was on land but one didn’t have to take a ship out there (burning fuel) to do it.

Would the benefit be greater than the cost?

Would they be in international waters?

How would they be protected from sabotage?


14 posted on 08/20/2008 5:16:00 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Truthism Watch)
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Bingo. This is pure fantasy unimpeded by any engineering knowledge.


15 posted on 08/20/2008 5:16:56 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Kozman
Micheal Bloomberg (R) NYC.

How did this a$$hole get in MY party?

16 posted on 08/20/2008 5:45:15 AM PDT by timydnuc (I'll die on my feet before I'll live on my knees.)
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To: Kozman
Mayor Bloomberg ...

17 posted on 08/20/2008 5:50:41 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Kozman

Bloomy ought to put one on top of a beanie and ear it.


18 posted on 08/20/2008 6:01:18 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: School of Rational Thought
The engineering and expense to put a windmill out at see would be enormous.

Do you realise this is already done in Several locations?

http://www.windpower.org/en/pictures/offshore.htm

19 posted on 08/20/2008 7:05:19 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: School of Rational Thought

See also:

http://www.ge-energy.com/prod_serv/products/wind_turbines/en/downloads/ge_36_brochure_new.pdf


20 posted on 08/20/2008 7:12:54 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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