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In a recent New York Times article, “Wind Turbines are Coming to NYC, and Not Just Offshore” describes how NYC is paving the way to making wind power a real resource to offset the use of fossil fuels. With a plan to build five wind towers, about 30 stories high, the hope is to generate 7.5 megawatts which would power almost 2,000 homes as soon as 2013.

New York  is actually very windy. Therefore, it makes an ideal place to build these (and more) wind towers. If wind towers can be built to offset fuel consumption in homes and buildings, why not in vehicles? In a study performed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on the west coast found that, “if utilities generate 27 percent of their electricity from wind and solar energy across the Western Interconnection grid, it would lower carbon emissions by 25 to 45 percent, depending on the future price of natural gas. It would also decrease fuel and emissions costs by 40 percent.” The more renewable energy we use to power our electrical grid, like wind turbines, the greener NYC’s electric vehicles that emit zero emissions on the road can be. Wind turbines can now be thought of as a way to generate energy to power the city’s buildings AND vehicles.

In addition to building these wind turbines to create clean energy alternatives, President Obama visited ZBB Energy Corporation in Menomomee, WI on August 17, 2010 to discuss the potential job creation this new technology will provide. In his remarks to the workers at ZBB Energy Corporation he said, “Here at ZBB, you’re building batteries to store electricity from solar cells and wind turbines. And you’ve been able to export batteries around the globe, and that’s helping lead this new industry. For years, we’ve heard about manufacturing jobs disappearing overseas. Well, companies like this are showing us how manufacturing can come back right here in the United States of America, right back here to Wisconsin.” In addition to the job creation the building of the wind turbines will create, many more industries and companies will be created and grow to capture the energy the wind turbines can produce.

Seems like a wind-wind situation to us!