The plan, while still in its early stages, appears to be the boldest environmental proposal to date from the mayor, who has made energy efficiency a cornerstone of his administration.
Mr. Bloomberg said he would ask private companies and investors to study how windmills can be built across the city, with the aim of weaning it off the nation’s overtaxed power grid, which has produced several crippling blackouts in New York over the last decade.
While it’s unlikely something like this will happen anytime soon, you’ve got to hand it to Mayor Michael Bloomberg for even going there.
Whatever your opinion of Mayor Bloomberg, the scope of his environmental agenda is admirable. But as we saw with another great idea of his, getting far reaching, ambitious projects through New York’s political landscape is unimaginably difficult.
UPDATE: I think this article is making a rather simplistic critique of the windmill proposal. (Though there are some illustrations in the article that take some funny jabs.)
UPDATE 2: Also, a slightly tongue-in-cheek piece on the mixed history of Dutch windmills in Manhattan.
UPDATE 3: My pals at Pinko Magazine share their thoughts on the issue.
