Big Apple re-named The Big Windmill

The famous skyline of New York could change with the prospect of a new power system according to proposals by its mayor, Michael Bloomberg, including the possibility of placing wind turbines on top of skyscrapers and bridges of the Big Apple.

Many New Yorkers awoke yesterday to front page fake pictures showing the Empire State Building or the Brooklyn Bridge with windmills generating wind power.

During his tenure, which began in 2002, Bloomberg has placed special emphasis on New Yorkers to stop smoking, in equipping them with better schools or lowering the crime rate.

And recently he has been committed to the city being at the forefront of the country’s push in combating pollution, reducing energy consumption and increasing the use of clean energy in municipal buildings and facilities.

Bloomberg has used a meeting on clean energy in Las Vegas to make it clear that generating more renewable energy is a real priority for New York and that his administration stands ready to convert the city into the country’s number one in this field .

The mayor announced on Tuesday that during the next month, the council shall be open to receiving proposals and ideas related to the use of solar, wind or other clean energy ideas.

Bloomberg said that New York wants the best ideas to create both large and small projects that benefit New Yorkers, such as those related to harnessing the flow of the East and Hudson rivers, which surround Manhattan.

The projects could also be related to increased use of solar panels on buildings, which according to Bloomberg could generate around 20% of the electricity needed by the city.

There have been recent catastrophic energy failures including a blackout in New York on August 14, 2003 because of a failure of the network in the state of Ohio, which spread like falling dominos in the North-eastern U.S. and Canada, which were left without electricity affecting some 50 million people.

Bloomberg said in Las Vegas that the freedom, which for over a century the iconic statue has symbolised, is the opposite as Manhattan is undermined by dependence on foreign oil.