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Bloomberg Offers Wind Turbine Plan for NYC. By Michael Barbaro, NYTimes, August 20, 2008. "[New York] Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is seeking to put wind turbines on the city's bridges and skyscrapers and in its waters as part of a wide-ranging push to develop renewable energy. The plan, while still in its early stages, appears to be the boldest environmental proposal to date from the mayor... Aides said that… the city was eyeing the generally windy coast off Queens, Brooklyn and Long Island for turbines that could generate 10% of the city's electricity needs within 10 years. 'When it comes to producing clean power, we're determined to make New York the No. 1 city in the nation,' Mr. Bloomberg said… in a speech Tuesday night [at the Clean Energy Summit]... Rohit Aggarwala, the director of the city's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, said that turbines on buildings would likely be much smaller than offshore ones. Several companies are experimenting with models that look like eggbeaters, which the Bloomberg administration says could be integrated into the spires atop the city's tall buildings. 'You can make them so small that people think they are part of the design,' Mr. Aggarwala said."