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The Statue of Liberty won't need to worry about Con Ed having another blackout and dousing the light in her torch: The General Services Administration will get power from wind turbines. The Post reported that the GSA signed a three year contract for wind power to light the statue, plus Ellis Island, from upstate and other states, so no freaking out there the government will be putting huge windmills on Ellis Island - we're guessing the wind mills are situated near the Albany, because there's lots of wind up there from those windbags. But this make Gothamist wonder about having wind farms off the water in the city - those wind gusts from the water can be fierce.
Here's how wind turbines work. And this image of a wind turbine is from a wind turbine in Brooklyn - Brooklyn Hill in Wellington, New Zealand, that is!
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I proposed this idea back in August last year on my blog(http://peakoilnyc.blogspot.com/2005/08/wind-powered-liberty.html), but have no idea if that in anyway contributed to this great symbolic victory for alternative energy. I wonder what else I should blog-wish for?
http://www.mapleridgewind.com/
there are 190 of these, and they are HUMONGOUS.
the construction just finished and the whole site is producing 300 megawatts of power, i guess it's the biggest site in the east. (most of it is probably going down to you guys)
I know some people think they're ugly, but I'm all for it, as long as those propellers don't come flying into the city during a hurricane or something! After all, as long as the Earth continues to rotate, we'll continue to have wind. So wind must be an unexhaustable resource. What more could the human race ask for?
Five of them just went up near the Borgata Casino in Atlantic City.
http://www.newwindenergy.com/windfarm_jaw/index.html
windfarm cam: http://www.njwind.com/webcam.html
Thanks for all the cool links!
And as for blogwishes, I think it's a toss up between better subway service (dream!) and having the redesigned WTC constructed before 2015.
Liberals love windmills as long as they can't see them.
love those blanket statements about liberals.
jen, this deal won't keep lady liberty lit during a blackout. they probably purchased wind power credits, not a turbine. it would be horribly inefficient to pipe electricity all the way from albany for one user. the windmills are hooked up to the same power grid that caused the blackout. lady liberty pays a premium for the energy. she doesn't actually recieve the energy from the windmills, but her purchase offsets carbon-emmitting power. if she wanted to function through a blackout, she would need the windmill nearby and a huge bank of batteries.