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| News Date | Thursday, August 21, 2008 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Mayor Urges Study of Wind, Solar Power
By Robin Shulman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 21, 2008; Page A02
NEW YORK -- Outlining his vision for a dramatic reconfiguration of urban energy sources, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg says he is exploring potential for installing turbines and other alternative energy generators throughout New York City, in the water and on bridges and skyscrapers.
Speaking Tuesday evening at a conference in Las Vegas on alternative energy, Bloomberg said he will ask private companies to study how windmills, tidal turbines, and solar energy panels might be built, in an attempt to move the city toward reliance on renewable sources of energy.
"In New York," he said, "we don't think of alternative power as something that we just import from other parts of the nation."
His ideas could place New York at the forefront of a handful of cities across the nation seeking wind power and other alternative sources of energy.
A Chicago architect plans to tap into wind power for a new office, retail and residential skyscraper.
In San Francisco, Johanna Partin, the renewable energy program manager, said the city already has wind turbines on four homes and another on a city-owned museum. "We're really just kind of getting started," she said. |
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