Posted on 08/20/2008 5:48:28 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
MAYOR Michael Bloomberg has proposed a renewable energy program for New York City that would include placing windmills on city bridges, solar panels on skyscrapers, and the use of tidal, geothermal and nuclear energy.
Mr Bloomberg unveiled the outlines of his plan late yesterday at a major clean energy summit in Las Vegas organised by the University of Nevada.
"Just five years ago last week - on August 14th, 2003 - this country got an object lesson in how big a gamble we're taking with our future if we don't change course," said Mr Bloomberg, referring to the giant blackout that cut off power for 50 million people across the northeastern United States and Canada.
Hundreds of people were rescued from high-rise elevators, and thousands more were rescued from stalled trains in the city's subway system.
"We learned that this time, the enemy was us and our failure to take care of our infrastructure," he said.
"The world's greatest nation was shown to have a power grid that was seriously over-strained and out-of-date."
Mr Bloomberg said he is determined to keep the city's energy usage at or near its current level even as the population grows. But the city has to increase production of clean energy, he said.
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Actually, Don Quixote was saner than Bloomberg.
LOL! A picture tells a thousand words!
Bloomberg is insane.
There is no air in the windmills of his mind.
And the first time a NYC windmill loses a rotor blade, which then proceeds to cut some hapless motorist in two, the lawyers will be lining up
Hey bloomie. Put this on on a bridge near a populated area.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucceQ3vS3zs
Yes.
Mike Quixote.
How can you make so much money and be so stupid?
I even like Bloomberg TV, but don’t like Bloomie the man and his fruitcake ideas at all. Weird.
Hey Mike, do you not have NIMBYs in NYC?
History of New York City
"The region was inhabited by about 5,000[1] Lenape Native Americans at the time of its European discovery in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian explorer in the service of the French crown, who called it 'Nouvelle Angoulême' (New Angoulême).[2]
European settlement began with the founding of a Dutch fur trading settlement, later called 'New Amsterdam,' on the southern tip of Manhattan in 1625.[1] Dutch colonial Director-General Peter Minuit purchased the island of Manhattan from the Lenape in 1626.
Legend, now disproved, gives the price as $24 worth of glass beads.[3][4] The message of purchase quotes the costs as 60 guilders in 1626, equal to about $1000 today. [5] It is very likely that, unlike their European counterparts, the Lenape saw the deal as combination of a protective alliance and a land sharing pact, with a few actual goods exchanged to formalize the agreement.[6] In 1664, the English conquered the city and renamed it 'New York' after the English Duke of York and Albany.[7] At the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War the Dutch let the British keep New Amsterdam (New York) in exchange for the more valuable Run in the East Indies. By 1700, the Lenape population was diminished to 200.[8]"
You know where he can put that windmill!
One could only imagine the amount of pigeon guts that will be landing on the cars and people below on the street.
Actually should work really well: just put a bunch of ‘em outside his door and the hot air alone should be good for a few megawatts..
he has billions , let moonbat form a company and do it.
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