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In Brooklyn, Fertile Ground for a Wind Turbine
2015-01-16 00:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Modern-day Don Quixotes looking to tilt at wind turbines can see their latest fearsome foe from far and wide: Lower Manhattan; Red Hook, Brooklyn; or the Gowanus Expressway. In less than a month of operation, the first large-scale wind turbine to be installed in New York City, standing more than 160 feet tall, has produced enough energy to power two homes for over a year, or one 20-watt light bulb for over a century. But this turbine, in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, was built to help power a recycling...
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