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Mayor Bloomberg and other city officials opened up the nation's first multi-story green industrial facility at the Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday. The Perry Avenue Building, which underwent a $25 million renovation, features the city's first wind turbines mounted on a roof; remember when Bloomberg broached the idea of harnessing wind power last year?

The reaction to Mayor Bloomberg's wind power plan, which proposes wind turbines off the shores and maybe even atop buildings and bridges, is decidedly mixed. In one corner, you have fans like Donald Trump--"It's something we should absolutely be looking at"--and former mayor Ed Koch--"I think it's ingenious. Absolutely ingenious." In the other corner, you have, oh, architects and engineers who think the plan, per the NY Times, "would be complicated and expensive and barely begin to meet the growth in demand for electricity that is expected in the coming years."