Hizzoner's Plan

Another day, another prominent political figure releases a renewable energy Apollo plan. At least, when it comes to Mike Bloomberg, we know that this one will never materialize. Bloomberg's last five-year-plans were left crumpled by the legislative wastebasket after other politicians reminded him that he is the mayor of New York, not the totalitarian dictator of New York.

Mike's latest "idea" is to put wind turbines all over the place in New York. See a building? Stick a turbine on it. See a bridge? Why not put two or three there.

There's just one thing that the Mayor forgot: wind data collection studies. New York city is a relatively small patch of land. And it's not an especially windy place (except in places where architectural miscues lead to rip-roaring wind canyons). Why would a wind developer place his turbine on the Pan Am building when he could put it in the Texas panhandle and get three times as much revenue-producing power from it?

Can we please stop covering every public figure's "plan" as if it's important. These quarter-baked scribblings on a legal pad are not worthy of the tired, weary, life-bitten public's very short attention span.